Earlier Houses: An earlier house on the site of the current house burned in 1592.

Built / Designed For: Charles Stuart, 6th Earl of Moray.

House & Family History: On February 7, 1592 George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, attacked and burned the first Donibristle House and murdered its owner, James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray, with whom he'd been quarrelling. This infamous incident is remembered in the ballad "The Bonnie Earl O'Moray." In the 1990s the main block of the second house, which had burned 1858, was rebuilt and reunited with the surviving wings of Donibristle House as part of the redevelopment of the House into flats.

Garden & Outbuildings: During the Great War the Donibristle Estate was used by the Royal Naval Air Service as an airfield, a purpose it served again in World War II. Beginning in 1962, the airfield and the rest of the Estate, was developed as Dalgety Bay, a privately-funded new town.

Vitruvius Scoticus: Adam, W., pls. 92-94, 1810.

John Bernard (J.B.) Burke, published under the title of A Visitation of the Seats and Arms of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, among other titles: 2.S. Vol. I, p. 155, 1854.

John Preston (J.P.) Neale, published under the title of Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, among other titles: 2.S. Vol. IV, 1828. Scotland, 1830.

House Listed: Category A

Park Listed: Not Listed

Past Seat / Home of: SEATED AT EARLIER HOUSE: James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray, 16th century. SEATED AT CURRENT HOUSE: Charles Stuart, 6th Earl of Moray, 18th century.

Current Ownership Type: Corporation

Primary Current Ownership Use: Flats / Multi Family

House Open to Public: No

Historic Houses Member: No