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Barra Castle is an unusual L-plan tower house, dating from the early 16th century, about two miles south of Oldmeldrum, above the Lochter Burn, in the parish of Bourtie,〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Gazetteer for Scotland )〕 Aberdeenshire, Scotland.〔Lindsay, Maurice (1986) ''The Castles of Scotland''. Constable. ISBN 0-09-473430-5 p77〕 It occupies the site of the battle in which Robert Bruce defeated John Comyn, Earl of Buchan.〔 ==History== A castle on this site was, from the mid-13th century, the seat of the King family.〔 An earlier castle associated with the hereditary Forester and Coroner of the Garioch, a Blackhall,〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Canmore )〕 may be incorporated in the main block and south-eastern wing, but the present castle owes its form mainly to George Seton, chancellor of the University of Aberdeen, Tutor and Vicar of Meldrum〔 who was granted the estate in 1598.〔 A charter of 1599 to George Seton, tutor of Meldrum, mentions the erection of the lands of Barra as a free barony, while a charter of 1615, ordains that the 'fortalice of Barra' is to be the chief seat of the barony.〔 James Reid, an Aberdeen advocate,〔 was in possession of the estate by 1630, and the Reid family retained it until 1754. Dame Margaret Abercrombie, the wife of John Reid (who was made a baronet in 1703), refitted parts of the house; she may be responsible for the fireplace in the Great Hall.〔 The purchaser in 1754 was John Ramsay of Melrose, a merchant trading in Russia,〔 who added the north wing, and his descendants still own it; a Ramsay heiress married Andrew Irvine,〔 one of the Irvines of Drum, early in the 20th century.〔 John Ramsay preferred his estate at Straloch, and after his death in 1787 the property came to be used as a farmhouse. It was restored as a dower house, to plans by George Bennet Mitchell, in the first decade of the twentieth century.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barra Castle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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