Qualla: Fingask Castle https://qualla.com/fingask-castle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:25 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/9/fingask-castle-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Fingask Castle https://qualla.com/fingask-castle Fingask Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/fingask-castle/ Photo credit Mike Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0. When Miss Jessie Threipland died in May 1871, a family friend wrote that "the life of the old house went out" with her. That single sentence captures something true about Fingask. This is a place where every stone, every yew, every gravel walk carries the weight of one family's two-and-a-half-century romance with a small castle on a hillside in the Carse of Gowrie. The Threiplands lost Fingask. They got it back. They lost it again. They bought it back. The story is still being written.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/9/fingask-castle-wp/gfj9-fingask-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Fingask Castle: Built on a Hillside in 1592 https://qualla.com/fingask-castle/ Photo credit The original uploader was Rodolph at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0. Fingask sits on a south-facing slope above the broad agricultural plain of the Carse of Gowrie, with Fife visible across the Tay on a clear day. The current castle is dated 1592, built around a 12th-century structure that came before it. Sir Patrick Threipland, 4th Baronet, laid ...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/9/fingask-castle-wp/gfj9-fingask-castle-built-on-a-hillside-in-1592.mp3 0:06 2 full Fingask Castle: Statues in the Yew https://qualla.com/fingask-castle/ Photo credit Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0. The garden statuary at Fingask was largely carved by Charles Spence, a footman and mason who served the Threiplands and became known across Perthshire as the Bard of Gowrie. Spence sculpted scenes from Burns - Tam o' Shanter and his cronies drinking at Kirkton Jean's, Wilson's Me...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/9/fingask-castle-wp/gfj9-fingask-castle-statues-in-the-yew.mp3 0:06 3 full Fingask Castle: The Whisky Baronet's Tragic End https://qualla.com/fingask-castle/ Photo credit Rodolph at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Threiplands lost Fingask in 1917 to Sir John Henderson Stewart, a whisky merchant whose fortune seemed unshakeable. In 1917 the estate ran to 2,587 acres - arable land, hill, and woods - and brought in £4,000 a year in rent. Then American Prohibition arrived in 1920, devastat...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/9/fingask-castle-wp/gfj9-fingask-castle-the-whisky-baronets-tragic-end.mp3 0:06 4 full Fingask Castle: The Family Returns https://qualla.com/fingask-castle/ Photo credit Barelyhere, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1969, against all odds, the Threiplands came home. Mark Stepney Murray Threipland, a grandson of Colonel William Murray Threipland, bought back the property. By then the estate had shrunk to 75 acres, a fraction of what it had been at its peak. In 1996 it passed to Andrew Murr...

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