The first owners of Blairfindy were Grants, but the present castle was built by the Gordons,[REF] having been completed by John Gordon in 1564.
It is close to the site of the Battle of Glenlivet where the Earl of Argyll's Protestant army was defeated by the much smaller army of the Earl of Huntly and the Francis Hay, 9th Earl of Erroll,[REF] in 1594 [REF].