Corse Castle

The laird of the day, Sir William Forbes, is reputed to have said of his projected new castle "Please God I will build me such a house as thieves will need to knock at ere they enter.

[3] Patrick's second son, the theologian John Forbes (1593–1648), inherited Corse in 1635 and died there in 1648, having opposed the National Covenant and been exiled for three years.

[4] The Corse estate then went to John Forbes' son George and then his grandson, but due to a lack of further heirs it reverted to the Forbeses of Craigievar, descended from his brother William.

In The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland (1887), David MacGibbon and Thomas Ross say: This ruinous castle is pleasantly situated in a retired locality about three miles north from Lumphanan Station on the Deeside Railway.

The property has long belonged to the Forbeses, and the present building was erected in 1581 by William Forbes, the father of Patrick, the well-known Bishop of Aberdeen.