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Im Zentrum des Parks liegt Benmore House, ein kleines Traumschloß.Benmore House ist ein privates „Outdoor Education Center”

Im Zentrum des Parks liegt Benmore House, ein kleines Traumschloß.Benmore House ist ein privates „Outdoor Education Center”

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Airthrey Castle lies just to the east of Bridge of Allan, 2 miles (3 km) north east of Stirling, and today forms the administrative centre for the University of Stirling, lying at the centre of a 134 ha (330 acre) parkland campus.

It was built in 1791 to a design by Robert Adam (1728 - 92) for the evangelist Robert Haldane (1764 - 1842), whose family had owned the estate since 1759. The castle includes two standing stones which may mark a battlefield where King Kenneth I (d.858) defeated the Picts to unite Scotland in 839. The estate is first mentioned in 1146 in a charter of King David I (c.1080 - 1153). In 1368, it ceased to be crown property and passed to the Keeper of Stirling Castle. In 1472, the Airthrey Estates passed to the Grahams of Montrose and in 1645, the manor house was burned to the ground by Archibald Campbell (1598 - 1661), the covenanting Marquis of Argyll, in reprisal for the burning of his nearby Castle Campbell by the royalist Grahams. John Hope of Hopetoun (d.1682) who bought the estate in 1678, sold it to the Dundas family in 1706. They in turn passes to the Haldanes in 1759. Robert Haldane improved the estate, created the loch and landscaped the grounds before selling the estate in 1798 to Sir Robert Abercromby (1740 - 1827) who further developed the estate and the surrounding area. Abercromby discovered an ancient whale's skeleton at Airthrey in 1819 (the seashore had originally run along the base of the Ochil Hills). Sir Robert gifted the skeleton to the Natural History Museum at Edinburgh University. The Castle was used as a Maternity Hospital during World War II, before being purchased by Stirling County Council and later passed to the University. A fire in July 2000 caused considerable damage to the castle, but the University quickly committed to restore the building to its former glory.

History This area of Strathlachlan is the home to the Maclachlan clan. The original castle was built at the beginning of the fourteenth century about the time of the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. It remained the in place until it was bombarded from the sea in 1746 by an English warship following the defeat of the Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden. This was retribution against the Maclachlans for joining in the unsuccessful rebellion. This is the ruin that can be seen at the shores of Loch Fyne from the current castle. The new castle started life as a Queen Anne style house at the end of the eighteenth century and at the end of the nineteenth the Scottish baronial transformation was undertaken.

Beschreibung Kinnaird Castle, Brechin ist die Heimat der Carnegie-Familie (Graf und Gräfin von Southesk). Die Burg wurde im 15. Jahrhundert und wurde in der Familie seit über 600 Jahren. Das Schloss hat konischen Türme, steile Dächer, und Wappenbuch Dekorationen. Die meisten der im zweiten Stock des Schlosses wurde in zwei luxuriöse Ferienwohnungen. Kinnaird Castle ist inmitten des 1300 Hektar ummauerten Park, wo Herden von Rindern und Highland Brache-Hirsche herumlaufen. Es gibt auch formale Gärten, ein See, Fluss und Wanderungen neben Lachs-Angeln-Pools.

Architektur mehrmals umgebaut und befindet sich nun im viktorianischen Stil baronial.

1628 Auf einer älteren Vorgängeranlage wird die heutige Burg vom John Erskine, Earl of Mar gebaut.

1689 Während der Jakobinerjagd wird die Burg vom Schwarzen Colonel, John Farquharson of Inverey niedergebrannt.

1748 Wiederaufbau der Anlage durch die hannoveranische Regierung als Stützpunkt in der turbulenten Provinz Mar.

Das Schloss aus dem 15. Jahrhundert. liegt ca. 5 km südlich der Kleinstadt Tralee in einer gepflegten Gartenanlage.