Blair Castle; ancestral home of the Murray Clan and a long line of Atholls

En route to Dundee, we stopped at Blair Castle, one of the Highlands best known estates, and also the ancestral home to Clan Murray!  It has been home to 19 generations of Stewarts and Murrays of Atholl.

Blair Castle

The castle gardens

Statue of Hercules

Rob at the garden entrance

My favourite Atholl

Diana, the huntress

I was lucky enough to catch this piper walking by the window.

The great hall

A beautiful necklace of deer teeth.  Ugh.

On the left, the blond hair is Bonnie Prince Charlie's and the hair
in the middle is a lock of hair from Lord George Murray, Lt.
General for Prince Charlie 1694-1760

Picture gallery

Highland Bull

Highland bulls

This guy was sitting in a store window looking sad.

John Murray, 1st Earl of Atholl 1642