Winetower
| Winetower | |
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Aberdeenshire | |
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 The Winetower | |
| Type: | Tower house |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NJ99936751 |
| Location: | 57°41’51"N, 2°0’10"W |
| Town: | Fraserburgh |
| History | |
| Built 16th-century | |
| Information | |
The Winetower or 'wine tower' is a small three-storey tower on Kinnaird Head, a headland in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. It stands about 50 yards from Kinnaird Head Lighthouse.
The tower has been dated to the 16th-century, and may have gained its name through use as a store associated with the castle,[1] which castle was later converted into a lighthouse.
The tower is accessed via the second floor, and contains elaborate carved stone pendants.[2]
It is reputed that in the cave below, one of the Fraser family imprisoned his daughter's lover, leaving him to drown there. The daughter then jumped from the roof of the tower. There is red paint on the rocks below to illustrate her blood. Local tradition naturally insists that the tower is haunted.[3]
| The Nine Castles of the Knuckle, Aberdeenshire |
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Cairnbulg Castle • Dundarg Castle • Inverallochy Castle • Kinnaird Castle • Lonmay Castle • Pitsligo Castle • Pittulie Castle • Castle of Rattray • Winetower |
- ↑ CANMORE (RCAHMS) record of Wine Tower
- ↑ Wine Tower, tower - scheduled monument detail (Historic Environment Scotland)
- ↑ Cranna, John (1914). Fraserburgh: Past and present. pp. 394–5. http://members.iinet.net.au/~liwill/Site/Downloads_files/Fraserburgh%20Past%20%26%20Present-John%20Cranna%20%28Illustrated%29.pdf.