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 BURLEIGH CASTLE 275 THIRD PERIOD throughout the country, subject to the discomfort and inconvenience of extremely limited arrangements. In 1674 Patrick Threipland purchased the estate of Kinnaird, which immediately adjoins Fingask, a property which he acquired two years before. Kinnaird previously belonged to the branch of the Livingstone family, raised by Charles n. to the Earldom of Newburgh. BURLEIGH CASTLE, KINROSS-SHIRE. This ancient seat of the Bal fours, which stands close to Milnathort, is now reduced to the old keep, and the gate and gatehouse of the court- yard. All the other buildings, which no doubt formerly formed a quad- rangle, are now completely swept away. FIG. 225. Burleigh Castle. View from the South-West. The family of Balfour came into possession in 1446, and the keep appears to belong to the latter half of the fifteenth century.