Qualla: Airlie Castle https://qualla.com/airlie-castle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:25 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Airlie Castle https://qualla.com/airlie-castle Airlie Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/airlie-castle/ There is a ballad about what happened here. "The Bonnie Hoose o' Airlie" remembers a day in 1640 when Parliamentarian troops under Archibald Campbell, the 8th Earl of Argyll, came to a stone courtyard above the junction of the Isla and Melgund rivers and burned it down to its foundations. The Ogilvies had refused to sign the National Covenant. They had thrown in with King Charles I. So Argyll, working through the politics of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms with characteristic thoroughness, methodically reduced not only Airlie but the family's other castles at Craig and Forter to ash. The east wall survived — three metres thick, 36 metres long, nine metres tall — and still survives today, the only piece of the original 1432 castle that the fire could not consume.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/f/airlie-castle-wp/gfjf-airlie-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Airlie Castle: The Wall That Refused to Fall https://qualla.com/airlie-castle/ The original Airlie was a rectangular courtyard castle, walls three metres thick, built around 1432 on a defensive position above where the Isla and Melgund meet, about nine kilometres west of Kirriemuir in Angus. The east wall, the largest surviving piece, runs 36 metres in leng...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/f/airlie-castle-wp/gfjf-airlie-castle-royalists-covenanters-and-consequences.mp3 0:06 3 full Airlie Castle: A Mansion Built on a Memory https://qualla.com/airlie-castle/ The Ogilvy story did not end with attainder. In 1778, David Ogilvy received his pardon and came home from exile in Versailles, where the family had taken refuge with the Stuart court. Between 1792 and 1793 he built a new mansion house on the old castle site, deliberately incorpor...

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