What is recorded here

Bute, Kilmory Castle stands in Argyll and Bute as a possible medieval tower house or lairds residence, its exact purpose still debated despite a precisely mapped position. The stones may have guarded local water, stored grain, or simply given a family a defensible home against storm and raid. Whatever it did, the build suggests pride and practicality locked together, a small vertical answer to a dangerous world.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Bute, Kilmory Castle as Lairds House (period Unassigned)(possible), Tower House (medieval)(possible). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Kilmory Castle on the Isle of Bute was likely built by the MacDuff family in the 13th or 14th century and later held by the Colquhouns. It is remembered as a significant medieval stronghold and as the family seat of the Colquhouns of Luss, a prominent Scottish clan.

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