Tour Scotland photograph of Fingask Castle, Perthshire, Scotland. A country house in Perthshire, Scotland. It is perched 200 feet above the village of Rait, three miles north east of Errol, in the Braes of the Carse, on the fringes of the Sidlaw Hills. Thus it overlooks both the Carse of Gowrie and the Firth of Tay and beyond into the Kingdom of Fife. There are mentions of the lands of Fingask in the Foundation Charter of the Abbey of Scone by King Alexander I. The date of the charter is said to be 1114 or 1115. The Bruce family owned the lands of Rait, including Fingask, from the 15th century. The Bruces were descended from the senior line of the Bruces of Clackmannan, which included Sir David Bruce who married Janet, daughter of Sir William Stirling of Keir. Their son, Robert Bruce held the charter of Rait in 1484, confirmed 1488, and his son David resigned his right to Clackmannan to his uncle in February 1506.
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