Forse Castle (9)
In the mid-16th century, William Sutherland of Forse (who married Janet, dau. of William Sinclair of Olrig - a property bought by my mother's family in 1792), was granted lands in Dunrobin Glen (Backies I think) by Mary Queen of Scots.  

The Sutherland's of Forse lived here in the castle until about the year 1660.  George Sutherland, 10th of Forse, would have been laird at the time.  They then built a new mansion house about a mile inland at a place (improbably) named Nottingham.  This was later pulled down and replaced in 1753 with a grander mansion house, called Forse House, which still stands.  It was a nursing home for a while and fell on hard times, but is now a hotel and well cared for.  The builder of Forse House was Capt. John Sutherland, 13th of Forse (died 1763), who was a Captain in Loudon's Highlanders (A Hanoverian regiment) during the Jacobite rising of 1745.
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