Qualla: Boyne Castle https://qualla.com/boyne-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: Boyne Castle https://qualla.com/boyne-castle Boyne Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/boyne-castle/ A nurse was amusing the heir at an open window. The child, a small bright thing, slipped from her arms and fell into the gulf below. The nurse jumped after him without thinking. Both were lost in the abyss. The legend attaches to Boyne Castle the way the dry moat attaches to its south wall: irremovable, fundamental. The Ogilvie family, the story goes, lost all taste for the castle after that day, and the building began its long slow surrender to the Aberdeenshire weather. Truth and legend braid together here, because the castle is real and so is the gorge.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/q/0/boyne-castle-wp/gfq0-boyne-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Boyne Castle: Land Above the Burn https://qualla.com/boyne-castle/ Boyne Castle sits a mile and a half east of Portsoy, on a promontory above the steep gorge of the Burn of Boyne. The stream protects the site on three sides. On the south, the side where attackers could approach on level ground, the builders cut a dry moat nearly sixty feet wide....

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/q/0/boyne-castle-wp/gfq0-boyne-castle-land-above-the-burn.mp3 0:06 2 full Boyne Castle: Built for a Bride of the French Court https://qualla.com/boyne-castle/ Charles McKean, the architectural historian, proposed that Alexander Ogilvy of Boyne built the present castle before 1575 for his bride Mary Beaton. Beaton was one of the four Marys, the companions chosen for Mary, Queen of Scots, who had been raised together at the French royal ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/q/0/boyne-castle-wp/gfq0-boyne-castle-the-king-stayed-here.mp3 0:06 4 full Boyne Castle: Why It Empties https://qualla.com/boyne-castle/ The legend of the child at the window is exactly the kind of story families tell when a house has stopped feeling like home. Whether or not it happened, the Ogilvies of Boyne did stop using the castle. Occupation continued until after 1723, according to the records, but by then t...

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