Autumn Road Trip Drive To Balvaird Castle Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish music, North from Gateside in Fife on the A912 road on ancestry visit to Balvaird Castle in Perthshire, which is a an excellent 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 in Perthshire through marriage to the heiress Margaret Barclay, a member of a wealthy family. Over the years the castle was extended and altered. A gatehouse was built in 1567. It is located in the Ochil Hills, around three miles South of Abernethy. The name Balvaird is from Baile a' Bhàird, meaning, Township of the Bard, in Scottish Gaelic.

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