The Nine Castles of Knuckle

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The Nine Castles of Knuckle are a group of ancient castles found in the extinct area of "Knuckle", which today would be located on the very far corner of the north-east coast of Aberdeenshire in the Buchan area of Scotland.

Castle	Nearest significant settlement(s)	OS Grid Reference	Built by	Construction date	Destruction date	Current condition
Cairnbulg Castle	Cairnbulg	NK017640	Comyn family, then Fraser Family^†	built by Comyns 13th century; rebuilt by Frasers c.1380^[1]		still inhabited by a family. (private not open to the public)
Dundarg Castle	New Aberdour	NJ895648	Comyn family			ruin
Inverallochy Castle	Inverallochy, St Combs	NK040628	Comyn family			ruin, only small areas visible
Kinnaird Castle^‡	Kinnaird Head, Fraserburgh	NJ999675
Castle of Lonmay	Fiddlers Green, Crimond	NK063605 (not shown on modern OS maps)				nothing remains, under sanddunes.
Pitsligo Castle	Rosehearty	NJ937670	Fraser family	1424		ruin
Pitullie Castle	Rosehearty	NJ944670	16th century			ruin
Castle of Rattray^~	Old Rattray, Rattray, Aberdeenshire	NK088578	Comyn family (possibly by William Comyn, jure uxoris Earl of Buchan)	early 13th century	unknown for certain, possibly 1308	destroyed, buried
Winetower	Kinnaird Head, Fraserburgh	NJ999675 (not on OS maps, but approximately 50 metres from the Scottish Lighthouse Museum}				ruin
^†Built by the Comyn's originally but then destroyed. The castle was then rebuilt by the Fraser family c.1380^[1] ^‡Note this is not the same Kinnaird Castle as that found near Montrose, Angus. ^~This is a different Castle of Rattray to that of Clan Rattray's ancient castle in Perthshire.