Tullynessle is a hamlet in

Aberdeenshire Aberdeenshire ( sco, Aiberdeenshire; gd, Siorrachd Obar Dheathain) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. It takes its name from the County of Aberdeen which has substantially different boundaries. The Aberdeenshire Council area incl ...

, Scotland, three miles NNW of Alford. The settlement contains the

Category A listed This is a list of Category A listed buildings in Scotland, which are among the listed buildings of the United Kingdom. For a fuller list, see the pages linked on List of listed buildings in Scotland. Key The organization of the lists in thi ...

Terpersie Castle Terpersie Castle (originally built as Dalpersie House) is a 16th-century tower house in Tullynessle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, located north-west of Alford. It is protected as a category A listed building. History The small Z-plan manor tower ...

, a privately owned 16th-century tower house. It formerly contained Tullynessle Tower, now gone, which was the summer residence of Patrick Forbes of Carse, the

Bishop of Aberdeen The Bishop of Aberdeen (originally Bishop of Mortlach, in Latin Murthlacum) was the ecclesiastical head of the Diocese of Aberdeen, one of Scotland's 13 medieval bishoprics, whose first recorded bishop is an early 12th-century cleric named Nec ...

from 1564 to 1635. The village has a primary school, Tullynessle Primary School, whose pupils attend

Alford Academy Alford Academy is a secondary school in Alford, Aberdeenshire Alford (pronounced sco, Aaford or , gd, Athfort) is a large village in Aberdeenshire, north-east Scotland, lying just south of the River Don. It lies within the Howe of Alford (al ...

for their secondary education.

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