Inverey Castle (3)
I have been happily referring to this building as a (ruined) castle, but there is some doubt as to whether it really was.  W D Simpson (the leading authority on the castles of north-east Scotland, wrote in 1949 'The so-called 'castle' of Inverey ... is nothing but an un-castellated laird's house of the later seventeenth century.'  Anyway, I shall stick with the uneducated masses and ignore the expert, who may simply have been having a grumpy day!

Not only do the masses disagree with Mr Simpson on whether the building was fortified, there is disagreement on the date of construction.  On this occasion, I side with the experts!  In an article, written by J Stirton and W D Simpson (there he is again!), they wrote &quot;<u>the castle</u> (wish he'd make his mind up!) was built about 1640 and destroyed in 1689.&quot;  

For a laird's house to have been built at that time in the wild and often lawless Highlands without the means of defending itself, seems moderately improbable.

Anyway, it must be said that there are no gun-loops in the surviving wall, the building was apparently never vaulted and the walls are not particularly thick as fortified house walls go.
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