MacDuff's Castle was originally a late 13th century stone courtyard fortress, founded by Michael Wemyss. The site is traditionally associated with 'Macduff, Thane of Fife' but in 1306, King Edward I ordered the Earl of Pembroke to burn the castle. Rebuild in the mid 14th century, Sir John Wemyss added the north-western gatehouse to the quadrangular court. From 1530 the Colvilles remodelled the castle, blocking the old gateway they built the south-western four storey tower, with a new gatehouse range in-between. In the late 16th or early 17th century, an outer court encased by a wall with angle turrets and pierced with gun-ports was created on the three landward sides. Allowed to decay from the late 17th century, only the south-west tower, the west wall and its southern angle tower of the outer court remain. The rest of the castle buildings are extremely ruinous and buried under a mound of rubble or vegetation. 2 miles south-west is Wemyss Castle and 3 miles north is Maiden Castle.