Genealogy research by Mark Humphrys.
Old Slains Castle is on the coast between Collieston and Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire. See map.
Old Slains Castle was seat of the rebel
Francis Hay, 9th Earl of Erroll
and was destroyed in 1594.
It was replaced by
New Slains Castle
some distance to the N.
A ruin of the SE corner of Old Slains Castle survives.
"Slanes Castle"
on
Roy Military Survey of Scotland, 1747-55.
The ruin of Old Slains Castle
and the hamlet of "Old Castle" on
OS map 1867.
Old Slains Castle.
Photo 1911.
From BBC.
Old Slains Castle.
Photo 2010 by John Murray.
From BBC.
Old Slains Castle from the sea.
Photo 2009.
Formerly here.
And similar shot.
Formerly here.
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