Castles and forts in Angus
The Discover Alone map has 109 castles and forts in Angus, Scotland. Below are the 60 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Vayne CastleCastle (16th Century)Vayne Castle is a 16th century ruin in Angus, Scotland, where a round south-west tower and square north-east tower…
ThorntonCastle (medieval)(possible)Thornton is a possible medieval castle in Angus, Scotland. Its exact boundary remains unclear, but the land may still…
Red Castle, LunanCastle (medieval), Midden (medieval)William the Lion founded Red Castle as a hunting seat in the 12th century, building its walls from local red freestone…
Peel of LintrathenCastle (medieval)(possible)Peel of Lintrathen is a possible medieval castle in Angus where the Durwards kept the Bell of St Madden until their…
Panmure CastleCastle (medieval), Chapel (medieval), Garden (post Medieval)(possible), Moat (medieval), Mound(s) (period Unknown)Panmure Castle is a ruined rhomboid fortress built around 1224 for Sir Peter Maule, where corner towers still guard a…
NewtonCastle (medieval), Farmhouse (period Unassigned), Farmstead (period Unassigned)Newton is a medieval castle and later farmstead in Angus, Scotland, where stone walls still stand beside fields that…
Mid DodFarmhouse (post Medieval), Fortified House (medieval)Mid Dod stands in Angus as a post-medieval farmhouse layered over a medieval fortified house, marking the shift from…
Melgund CastleCastle (medieval)Melgund Castle stands two kilometres east of Aberlemno as a partially restored sixteenth-century tower house where…
MarcusCastle (medieval)Marcus stands in Angus, Scotland, recorded as a medieval castle though no exact wall or room remains visible to judge.…
Mains of RochelhillCastle (medieval)(possible), Farmhouse (18th Century)Mains of Rochelhill stands in Angus as a possible medieval castle later rebuilt into an 18th-century farmhouse, marking…
Mains of CoullCastle (medieval)Mains of Coull stands in Angus as a medieval castle, its stones marked only by a broad national record rather than a…
Lud CastleFort (period Unknown)Lud Castle is a promontory fort in Angus, Scotland, where a narrow neck of land joins a steep cliff to the mainland. A…
LindertisCastle (medieval), House (19th Century), Policies (post Medieval)Lindertis stood in Angus from the 16th century until demolition in 1987, transforming from a medieval castle into a…
Kinnettles CastleCastleKinnettles Castle is a mid-19th century Scottish Baronial building in Angus, now a hotel. James Paterson built the…
KingennieCastle (medieval)Kingennie is a medieval castle in Angus, Scotland, reduced to a memory buried under soil and silence. No tower remains…
Inverquharity CastleGarden (medieval) - (post Medieval), Tower House (medieval)Inverquharity Castle is a 15th-century tower house in Angus, Scotland, built by Alexander Ogilvie in the 1440s and…
Invermark CastleTower House (16th Century)Invermark Castle is a roofless, four-storey tower built for the Lindsay family, possibly in 1526, and still standing…
Hynd CastleTower House (medieval)Warden wrote in the 1880s that water and a morass surrounded the castle on an apparently artificial mound, though the…
Hatton CastleTower House (16th Century)Hatton Castle is a 16th-century tower house on Hatton Hill above Newtyle, built in 1575 for Laurence, fourth Lord…
GlenquiechCastle (medieval)(possible)Glenquiech is a possible medieval castle in Tannadice, Angus, once claimed as a seat for the Earls of Buchan. George…
Glamis CastleCastle (medieval), Country House (period Unassigned), Hospital (first World War), Tower House (medieval)Glamis Castle has housed the Lyon family since 1372, when Robert II granted it to Sir John Lyon, and it remains the…
Gardyne CastleTower House (medieval)Gardyne Castle stands in Angus as a surviving tower house where royal ambition and family bloodshed collided. Built in…
Forter CastleCastleForter Castle stands in Angus, Scotland, remembered more as a lost name than a visible stone. It may have been a small…
Forfar, Castle HillCastle (medieval)Castle Hill in Forfar, Angus still carries the shape of a medieval castle, though no intact tower stands above the…
Finavon CastleDovecot (17th Century), Tower House (medieval)Finavon Castle stands as a ruined tower house beside the River South Esk, where a 1600 structure leans against older…
EthiebeatonCastle (medieval)Ethiebeaton stands in Angus, Scotland, as a medieval castle marked on the national record. The exact point remains…
Ethie CastleCastle (medieval)Ethie Castle is a 14th-century castle in Angus, Scotland, built around 1300 by monks at Arbroath Abbey. It later…
Edzell CastleCastle (medieval)Edzell Castle is a ruined 16th-century tower house in Angus, Scotland, built around 1520 by David Lindsay, 9th Earl of…
Dunninald CastleCastle (medieval), Country House (period Unassigned)Dunninald Castle stands in Angus as a medieval fortress later shaped into a country house, its stones recording both…
CossansCastle (medieval)Cossans is a medieval castle in Angus, Scotland, still standing where human hands first shaped stone. It is the kind of…
Colliston CastleTower House (medieval)Colliston Castle is a 16th-century tower house north of Arbroath, built with two round corner towers and a stair turret…
Clova CastleCastle (medieval)Clova Castle stands as a broken circular stair tower above the Glen Road in Angus, its southern wall still rising three…
Careston CastleTower House (medieval)Careston Castle is a 16th-century tower house in Angus, Scotland, built about 1582 by Sir Henry Lindsay. Its L-shaped…
Brechin CastleMotte (medieval)(possible)Brechin Castle stands in Angus, Scotland, as a possible medieval motte, its earthen form hidden beneath grass and…- Brechin CastleCastle (medieval), Tower House (medieval)Brechin Castle stands in Angus as a medieval castle and tower house, its stones marked by age rather than a single…
Braikie CastleCastle (16th Century)Braikie Castle stands as a tall, L-shaped fortress built in 1581 for Thomas Fraser, a son of the 5th Lord Lovat. Its…
BonnytonCastle (medieval), Dovecot (17th Century)Bonnyton stands in Angus as a medieval castle and seventeenth-century dovecote, its stones still holding the shape of…
Black Jack CastleCastle (medieval)Black Jack Castle is a medieval castle in Angus, Scotland. The National Record of the Historic Environment lists it as…
Ballinshoe CastleTower House (16th Century) - (17th Century)Ballinshoe Castle stands roofless in Angus, its small stone tower marking a harsh borderland where younger sons or…
Balfour CastleCastle (16th Century), Farmhouse (19th Century), Mount (copper Alloy)(period Unknown)Balfour Castle, a 16th century baronial mansion at Balfour Mains in Angus, was largely demolished except for a…
AuchmullCastle (medieval)Auchmull was a square tower built in 1601 for the Lindsays of Edzell, marked by a heraldic stone bearing Lindsay and….jpg?width=1280)
Affleck CastleTower House (medieval)Affleck Castle is a medieval tower house in Angus, Scotland. It still stands as a sharp stone marker of local history…
FithieCastle (medieval)Fithie is a medieval castle in Angus, Scotland, recorded in the national historic environment register. It stands as a…
Castle HillCastle (medieval)(possible)No castle is visible, which is the point. The hill keeps the shape of a castle while withholding the stones, forcing…
'castle Rock', AuchmithieCup and Ring Marked Rock (neolithic), Fort (iron Age)Castle Rock in Auchmithie, Angus, is a Neolithic cup and ring marked rock that later became an Iron Age fort. The…
Prail CastlePromontory Fort (iron Age)No second name appears anywhere in the supplied facts. Prail Castle is an Iron Age promontory fort in Angus, Scotland…
BolshanCastle (medieval)Bolshan stands in Angus, Scotland, as a medieval castle whose exact point is known to the nearest metre. It is not…
TealingCastle (medieval)Tealing is a medieval castle in Angus, Scotland. It is listed in the national record and marked on the official map.…
Maiden CastleArchaeological placeMaiden Castle is shown as a archaeological place on the public map of Angus. The saved point is the map point or the…
Craig HouseCastle (medieval), Country House (period Unassigned)None. The supplied facts contain no location or story for Craig House.- Woodrae, CastleCastle (medieval)Woodrae, Castle stands in Angus, Scotland as a medieval castle, though no visible hall or courtyard remains in the…
- Wood of DalbogCastle (medieval)Wood of Dalbog is a medieval castle in Angus, Scotland, still marked on the official map with a point accurate to one…
- Wemyss CastleCastle (medieval)Wemyss Castle stands in Angus as a medieval ruin, its exact boundary still debated because the public record only marks…
- Wedderburn CastleCastle (medieval), Dovecot (19th Century)Wedderburn Castle stands in Angus as a medieval shell beside a later dovecote, the kind of place where keeping pigeons…
- Sheilhill BridgeCastle (medieval), Chapel (medieval) - (post Medieval), Cottage (18th Century) - (19th Century), Holy Well (medieval)Sheilhill Bridge in Angus, Scotland, is a layered place where a medieval castle, chapel and holy well still belong…
- Pitairlie CastleCastle (medieval)Pitairlie Castle stands as a medieval ruin in Angus, Scotland, though its exact history has faded from memory. The…
- Montrose, Fort HillCastle (medieval)(possible), Human Remains (period Unknown), Well (period Unknown)Fort Hill rises above Montrose, Angus, carrying a possible medieval castle, an undated well and unknown human remains.…
- Monikie CastleCastle (medieval)Monikie Castle stood on rising ground beside Monikie parish church in Angus during the post medieval period, leaving…
- MarytonFortified House (medieval) - (post Medieval), Tower (medieval) - (post Medieval), Socketed Axehead (bronze)(bronze Age)Maryton stands in Angus as a medieval fortified house and tower that survived into post-medieval times, its stones…
- Lundie CastleCastle (medieval), Farmhouse (period Unassigned), Farmstead (period Unassigned)Lundie Castle stood in Angus from the early 16th century until demolition in the early 19th century, but its stones did…