Tour Scotland Photograph Entrance Balvaird Castle Perthshire


Tour Scotland photograph of the entrance to Balvaird Castle, Perthshire, Scotland. Balvaird Castle in Perthshire is a particularly fine and complete example of a traditional late medieval Scottish tower house, built around the year 1500 for Sir Andrew Murray, a younger son of the family of Murray of Tullibardine. He acquired the lands of Balvaird through marriage to the heiress Margaret Barclay, a member of a wealthy family. It is likely that Balvaird Castle was built on the site of an earlier Barclay family castle.



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