Tour Scotland short travel video clip, with Scottish music, of the dining room on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to Ballindalloch Castle. Known as the " pearl of the north ", located in Banffshire. It has been the family home of Macpherson Grants since 1546. The first tower of the Z plan castle was built in 1546. After it was plundered and burned by James Graham, the first Marquess of Montrose, it was restored in 1645. Extensions were added in 1770 by General James Grant of the American Wars of Independence, whose ghost is said to haunt the castle, and in 1850 by the architect Thomas MacKenzie. The dining room of Ballindalloch is said to be haunted by a ghost known as The Green Lady.
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