Pitsligo Castle
Pitsligo Castle near Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire is a ruined sixteenth-century castle associated with the Forbes family, Lords Pitsligo, a family notable for their committed Jacobite sympathies during the 1715 and 1745 risings. The fourth Lord Pitsligo, Alexander Forbes, was one of the most elderly and physically infirm of the Jacobite officers at Culloden in 1745, his refusal to submit to Hanoverian authority despite his advanced age becoming legendary in northeast Scotland. The castle ruins stand in the agricultural landscape of northeast Buchan, and the surrounding area of Fraserburgh and the Buchan coast is one of the most historically interesting and scenically distinctive parts of Aberdeenshire, with the dramatic clifftop ruins of Fraserburgh Castle, now the Kinnaird Head Lighthouse, among the principal attractions.