Pitullie Castle
Pitullie Castle is a ruined tower house near Rosehearty in Aberdeenshire, a fragment of agricultural history in the landscape of northeast Buchan. The castle ruin stands in the middle of a field in the characteristically flat, open agricultural landscape of this part of Aberdeenshire, where the proximity of the North Sea and the fertile soils of Buchan supported a dense pattern of estate farms and tower houses throughout the medieval and early modern periods. The surrounding Buchan coast with its dramatic clifftop scenery, fishing harbours and the ruins of Slains Castle, said to have inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula, provides the most dramatic heritage landscape of the region. The town of Fraserburgh nearby, with its historic Kinnaird Head Lighthouse and the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses, provides the main heritage attraction of this corner of northeast Scotland.