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<\/span><\/p>\n Fairburn Tower was constructed in 1545 for Murdo Mackenzie, the 1st of Fairburn. He had spent time at the Court of King James V and was a Gentleman of the Bedchamber. Murdo obtained a Charter for the Lands of Fairburn in 1542. In 2020 The Landmark Trust took on a lease of Fairburn Tower. The restoration of the tower was completed in 2022. It is now a most wonderful getaway self-catering experience. To find out more about The Landmark Trust and book a stay at Fairburn Tower, click the link below.<\/p>\n
One of his successors added the stair tower.
It was probably Alexander, the 8th of Fairburn, who added a dining room, from \u2018two cupples of a Creel House\u2019, which were strengthened with stone and lime walls. On 19th August 1762 Bishop Forbes dined at Fairburn.
By the time Alexander, the 10th and last Mackenzie of Fairburn, inherited the tower and the lands of Fairburn in 1793, the building was beginning to fall into disrepair.
In 1851 a local farmer was using the tower to store hay. A cow followed a trail of hay into the tower and became stuck in the building. She gave birth to a calf inside the tower, fulfilling the prophecy made by the Brahan Seer in the 17th century.
The dining room, built adjoining the tower, was turned into farm cottages which were occupied up until the 1930\u2019s. After which they, too, became ruined.<\/p>\n