Fingask Castle

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Fingask Castle
Fingask Castle in 2008
Location	Rait, Perthshire, Scotland
Coordinates	56°25′59″N 3°15′13″W / 56.43308°N 3.25360°W / 56.43308; -3.25360
Listed Building – Category B
Location of Fingask Castle in Perth and Kinross

Fingask Castle is a country house in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It is perched 200 feet (61 m) above Rait, three miles (5 km) north-east of Errol, in the Braes of the Carse, on the fringes of the Sidlaw Hills. Thus it overlooks both the Carse of Gowrie and the Firth of Tay and beyond into the Kingdom of Fife. The name derives from Gaelic fionn-gasg: a white or light-coloured appendage.^{[citation needed]}

Fingask was once an explicitly holy place, a convenient and numinous stop-off between the abbeys at Falkirk and Scone. It was later held by the Bruce family, and then by the Threiplands. In the eighteenth century it was owned by Jacobites and was forfeited. The castle is a Category B listed building,^[1] and the estate is included on the Inventory of Historic Gardens and Designed Landscapes, the national register of significant gardens.^[2]