Qualla: Auchindoun Castle https://qualla.com/auchindoun-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: Auchindoun Castle https://qualla.com/auchindoun-castle Auchindoun Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/auchindoun-castle/ 'Turn again, turn again, turn again, I bid thee / If ye burn Auchindoun, Huntly he will head thee.' The warning was clear. The response was equally clear: 'Head me or hang me, that shall never fear me / I'll burn Auchindoun though the life leave me.' And so Willie MacIntosh did, one May morning before dawn, when the flames that consumed this 15th-century tower castle on its hilltop near Dufftown in Moray produced both a ruin and a song. Child Ballad number 183, 'Willie MacIntosh,' also known as 'The Burning of Auchindoun,' has kept the castle's most violent night alive for over four centuries.

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/y/auchindoun-castle-wp/gfjy-auchindoun-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Auchindoun Castle: Prehistoric Roots, Medieval Walls https://qualla.com/auchindoun-castle/ The hilltop where Auchindoun stands bears evidence of prehistoric or Pictish earthworks, suggesting the site was significant long before the castle rose. The visible remains date from the mid-15th century, when the L-plan tower house was constructed -- sometimes attributed to Rob...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/y/auchindoun-castle-wp/gfjy-auchindoun-castle-prehistoric-roots-medieval-walls.mp3 0:06 2 full Auchindoun Castle: Blood Feuds and the Bonny Earl https://qualla.com/auchindoun-castle/ Auchindoun's history is tangled in the feuds of northeast Scotland. An arbitration in 1564 granted Elizabeth Gordon a liferent interest in the castle over her stepson James Ogilvie of Cardell. The most consequential damage came in 1592, when Clan Mackintosh attacked and burned th...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/y/auchindoun-castle-wp/gfjy-auchindoun-castle-blood-feuds-and-the-bonny-earl.mp3 0:06 3 full Auchindoun Castle: Slighted, Restored, Abandoned https://qualla.com/auchindoun-castle/ After the Battle of Glenlivet in October 1594, the wounded followers of the Earl of Huntly retreated to Auchindoun for safety. James VI responded by ordering that Auchindoun, Slains Castle, Huntly Castle, and the Gordon castles of Abergeldy and Newton be slighted or demolished. F...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/y/auchindoun-castle-wp/gfjy-auchindoun-castle-slighted-restored-abandoned.mp3 0:06 4 full Auchindoun Castle: By Fiddichside on a May Morning https://qualla.com/auchindoun-castle/ The ballad endures. 'As I came in by Fiddichside, on a May morning / Auchindoun was in a blaze, an hour before the dawning.' The song, collected by Francis James Child as Ballad 183, preserves the Mackintosh attack in the dialect of the northeast, with the image of the castle bur...

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