Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Gight Castle (or House of Gight)

Gight Castle (or House of Gight), ruin, on river Ythan, Aberdeenshire, in par. and 5 miles E. of Fyvie sta.; was long the property of the Gordons, ancestors (on the mother's side) of Lord Byron, the poet.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "ruin"   (ADL Feature Type: "historical sites")
Administrative units: Fyvie Parish       Aberdeenshire County
Place names: GIGHT CASTLE     |     GIGHT CASTLE OR HOUSE OF GIGHT     |     HOUSE OF GIGHT

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