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Description: Drumoak, By Banchory, Aberdeenshire, AB31 5EY. Tel: +44(0)1330 811204; Fax +44(0)1330 811962. ADMISSION PRICES: castle, ... more

Drum Castle ... garden and grounds, adult £6, concession £4.50, adult group £4.80, child/school group £1, family £16.50. Garden and grounds only, £1 (h

Newest Review: ... de Irwyn, and following his assistance to Bruce at Bannockburn, William was awarded Drum Castle and surrounding lands. That was 1323, and Irvines owned Drum until, as I say, 1975. Drum Castle was in the wars many times over. It was ransacked three times during the Covenanting Rebellion. And the 14th Laird was prominent in the Jacobite uprising of 1715, while the 17th Laird fought with ... more

... Bonnie Prince Charlie at Culloden in 1745. The original tower keep is thought to date from the middle of the thirteenth century. The Tower of Drum is said to have been built by the first provost of Aberdeen, while the mansion house now surrounding the o...more

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Drum Castle: How Many Duncans Does it Take to Build a Castle? (607 words)
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Drum Castle was bequeathed to the National Trust for Scotland in 1975, by Henry Irvine, 24th Laird of Drum. That’s a whole lotta Lairds. Drum was possibly the oldest occupied castle in Scotland, and remained in the same family (almost) continuously for six and a half centuries. The Irvine, or Erivine, family go back even further than that. The earliest recorded member that I can trace is Duncan of the Eryvine, who was killed at Duncrub in 965 AD. One of his grandsons, Erinus, married into the family of King Malcolm II, but another grandson, also Duncan, seems to have been the ancestor of the entire Irvine clan. In 1018 he married some bird from the ... Read the complete review

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