What is recorded here

Carnassarie Castle stands in Argyll and Bute as a medieval tower house later joined by a seventeenth-century gateway and post-medieval outbuildings. The stone structure suggests a long life of local power, domestic use and change across several centuries. Whether people still walk its rooms or watch it from a distance, the castle remains a visible marker of regional history.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Carnassarie Castle as Gateway (17th Century), Outbuilding(s) (post Medieval), Tower House (medieval). 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.

Carnassarie Castle, a medieval tower house in Kintyre, Scotland, was built in the 15th or 16th century by the MacLachlan clan, who were prominent local landowners. It is remembered as a significant example of a defensible lowland tower house and as part of the historical landscape of the region.

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