What is recorded here
Castle Toward is a Gothic Revival country house completed in 1820 for Kirkman Finlay, standing beside the ruined medieval home of the Clan Lamont. The castle became HMS Brontosaurus during the Second World War, then an outdoor education facility until 2014, and now belongs to private owners. Its Chinese ponds, wooded shores and Firth of Clyde views still surround the old Lamont stones, linking merchant ambition, military use and community loss in one place.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castle Toward as Tower (period Unassigned). 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.
Built by the Clan MacDougall in the 13th century, Castle Toward is remembered as a strategic stronghold in the Scottish Highlands and as the site of a significant Jacobite victory in 1746 during the War of Austrian Succession.
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Places near here
Castle Toward, Chinese LakesOrnamental Lake(s) (20th Century) (1930) · 134 yd
Ardyne FarmFarmstead (post Medieval) · 578 yd
Toward BatterySignalling Structure (second World War) · 951 yd
Toward CastleTower House (medieval) · 1128 yd
BuachaileanFort (period Unassigned) · 1504 yd
Kilmarnock HillMountain / peak · 2.7 mi
Rothesay BayBay · 2.8 mi
Kames BayBay · 2.8 mi
War MemorialMemorial · 2.9 mi
Co-worker: Port Bannatyne QuayMotor Fishing Vessel (20th Century) · 3.0 mi
Rothesay Victorian ToiletsHeritage attraction · 3.1 mi
Isabella: Rothesay Inner Harbour, Bute, Upper Firth of ClydeSmack (20th Century) · 3.2 mi