Whisky Glen - The End
Blairfindy Castle is an L-plan tower house, dating from the 16th century, around 6.5 miles north of Tomintoul, and west of the River Livet. The tower was a hunting seat of the earls of Huntly.
The building is derelict. However, in 2019, a project to stabilise and make the castle safe was completed. Complete with a new access path and disabled parking alongside an information board, visitors can go inside the castle ruins on a free flow basis
The first owners of Blairfindy were Grants, but the present castle was built by the Gordons, having been completed by John Gordon in 1564. It was after it passed to another branch of the family in 1586 that it became a hunting seat for the Huntly earls.
It is close to the site of the Battle of Glenlivet where the Earl of Argyll’s Protestant army was defeated by the much smaller army of the Earl of Huntly and the Francis Hay, 9th Earl of Erroll, in 1594
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