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DRUMINNOR CASTLE 291 FOURTH PERIOD DRUMINNOR CASTLE, ABERDEENSHIRE. - This is a picturesque fragment (Fig. 747) of the old building said to have been the original Castle Forbes built in 1456, now incorporated with a modern mansion, the property of Robert Grant, Esq. FIG. 747. Druminnor Castle. The house is pleasantly situated on the banks of the burn of Kearn, in the parish of Auchindoir, and about three miles south from the Kennethmont station of the North of Scotland Railway. The arch of the doorway is remarkable, being composed of five straight sections, and not in the usual way of a portion of a circular