Ravenscraig Castle, Aberdeenshire

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Ravenscraig Castle, also known as the Craig of Inverugie, is a ruined 15th-century L-shaped tower-house north-west of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.{{cite web|url=http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/20992/details/ravenscraig+castle/|title=Ravenscraig Castle |work=CANMORE |access-date=29 July 2013}} It is a scheduled ancient monument.{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM2496|desc=Ravenscraig Castle|access-date=8 March 2019}}

The castle was the seat of the barony of Torthorston, held by the Cheynes family, and passed to the Keiths in the mid-14th century. A licence was granted to build a new castle in May 1491, with the castle built on the banks of the Ugie and defended by a moat.

It is thought that King James VI of Scotland visited the castle in 1589 to attend the wedding of Rebecca Keith and Sir James Gordon of Lesmoir.John Alexander Henderson, Aberdeenshire Epitaphs and Inscriptions (Aberdeen, 1907), p. 165. At that time the castle belonged to John Keith of Ravenscraig, whose half-brother William Keith of Delny was a courtier and diplomat who had tried to save the life of Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1587.Miles Kerr-Peterson, 'Sir William Keith of Delny', Innes Review 67:2 (2016), p. 157.

Most of the castle's decorative features and dressed stone have been robbed; however, the vaulted ground floor and principal apartments on the first are still visible. "A circular stair in the re-entrant angle rose originally above the wall head into a turret."