Fairburn Tower is a recently restored Scottish castle near Inverness and Muir of Ord in the parish of Urray.
The tower house on a hill above the River Orrin is believed to have been built in 1545 for Murdo Mackenzie.
[2] Rory Mackenzie, a nephew of Thomas Fraser, 2nd Lord Lovat,[3] who died in 1533, owned nearby farms or townships at Comrie,[4] Scatnell, and "Acheleis", and the mill at Contin.
[13] After he married Mariobelle or Margaret Urquhart, in 1549 Mary, Queen of Scots gave him more land in the parish.
[21] Hugh Miller, who heard stories of the Mackenzies from a woman called Isobel, known as "Mad Bell", described the ruin as a "ghastly spectre of the past".