Castles and forts in Argyll and Bute

The Discover Alone map has 139 castles and forts in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Below are the 60 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.

• Wester Kames CastleCastleWester Kames Castle is a four-storey tower near Kames Bay that changed hands twice before Robert Weir Schultz rebuilt…
• Treshnish Isles, Cairn Na Burgh More CastleBarracks (16th Century), Castle (medieval), Chapel (15th Century)Cairn Na Burgh More Castle stands among the Treshnish Isles as a medieval castle, 15th Century chapel and 16th Century…
• Treshnish Isles, Cairn Na Burgh Beg CastleCastle (medieval), Lazy Beds (post Medieval), Naust(s) (medieval)Cairn Na Burgh Beg Castle stands among the Treshnish Isles, a medieval fortress shadowed by post-medieval lazy beds and…
• Toward CastleTower House (medieval)Toward Castle is a medieval tower house in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, built to watch the water and command the land…
• Tirefour Castle, BrochArchaeological placeArdfert and Tirefour both wore castle names while behaving like broch anchors, yet neither admits a straightforward…
• Tiree, Island HouseCastle (medieval), House (19th Century), Tower House (medieval)Island House stands on Tiree in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, carrying both medieval castle and tower house origins…
• TarbetCastle (medieval)Tarbet is a medieval castle in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, still standing where human hands first shaped stone. Whether…
• Tarbert, Tarbert CastleCastle (medieval)Tarbert Castle stands in Argyll and Bute as a medieval ruin, its exact position known though its interior remains…
• Tarbert CastleRuinsRobert the Bruce transformed Tarbert into a vast royal fortress in 1325, paying masons to widen walls and burn hundreds…
• Shuna Island, Castle ShunaBuilding (18th Century) - (19th Century), Tower House (medieval)Castle Shuna stands on Shuna Island in Argyll and Bute, carrying a medieval tower beneath 18th and 19th century…
• Saddell CastleCastle (medieval), Drain(s) (17th Century) - (18th Century), Midden (17th Century) - (18th Century)Saddell Castle stands on the Kilbrannan Sound where a trap door once dropped unwanted visitors into a dungeon with no…
• Rothesay CastleRuinsRothesay Castle stands as a circular stone ruin on the Isle of Bute, its thick curtain wall surviving Norse axes and…
• Rosneath CastleCastle (medieval)Rosneath Castle stood beside Castle Bay from the 12th century until fire destroyed it in 1802. Its basement entered…
• Mull, Duart CastleCastle (14th Century)Duart Castle stands on Mull as a ruined 14th Century castle, its stones reduced to a hollow shadow where human life…
• Mount Stuart HouseCastleMount Stuart House stands in Argyll and Bute as a castle, but the public map offers no story about its rooms, owners or…
• Loch Na SreingeBuilding (period Unknown), Castle (medieval) - (post Medieval)(possible)Loch Na Sreinge hides a possible medieval castle in Argyll and Bute, though no exact date or owner is certain. Water…
• Loch Gorm CastleRuinsLoch Gorm Castle was a square stronghold with round corner bastions, built around the 1430s for Clan Donald on Eilean…
• Loch Awe, Innis Chonnel CastleCastle (medieval)Innis Chonnel Castle stands as a medieval ruin on Loch Awe in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Its stones mark a small island…
• Lismore, Castle CoeffinCultivation Remains (post Medieval), Fort (prehistoric)Castle Coeffin holds two lives: a prehistoric fort and post-medieval cultivation remains. The hill may have served as…
• Lismore, Castle CoeffinCastle (medieval), Hall House (medieval)Castle Coeffin stands in Argyll and Bute as a medieval castle and hall house, its exact position known to the nearest…
• Kilmahew CastleCastle (16th Century) - (18th Century)Kilmahew Castle stands as a ruined four-storey tower north of Cardross, built by Clan Napier in the 16th century after…
• Kilchurn CastleCastle (medieval)Kilchurn Castle rose from a small island in Loch Awe around 1450 when Sir Colin Campbell claimed the land for…
• Kilberry CastleCountry House (19th Century), Tower House (medieval)Kilberry Castle is a Category B listed country house near Kilberry in South Knapdale, Argyll, built at the end of the…
• Kerrera, Gylen CastleTower House (medieval)Gylen Castle stands on Kerrera as a medieval tower house, its stones marked by age rather than new ambition. The sea…
• Kames CastleCastleKames Castle is a four-storey stone tower at the head of Kames Bay on Bute, built in the 13th or 14th century for…
• Island I Vow, CastleCastle (16th Century)Island I Vow, Castle stands in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, a 16th Century structure whose exact position is known to the…
• Innis Chonnell CastleCastleInnis Chonnell Castle occupies a small island in Argyll and Bute, where stone walls still stand above the water. The…
• Inchgalbraith CastleCastle (medieval)Inchgalbraith Castle stands as a medieval ruin in Argyll and Bute, its exact position marked to the nearest metre…
• Gylen CastleCastleGylen Castle is a ruined tower house at the south end of Kerrera in Argyll and Bute, built by the Clan MacDougall in…
• Fraoch Eilean CastleCastle (medieval)Fraoch Eilean Castle is a medieval castle in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, recorded in the national historic environment…
• Eilean Dearg, Loch RuelCastle (medieval), Chapel (medieval), Fort (period Unassigned)(possible), Vitrified Stone (period Unassigned), Scraper (tool) (flint)(period Unassigned)Eilean Dearg is a small island in Loch Ruel, Argyll and Bute, where medieval castle and chapel features still stand…
• Dunyvaig CastleCastleDunyvaig Castle stands in Argyll and Bute, a rocky outpost where the land stops arguing with the sea and listens…
• Duntrune CastleCastle (medieval), Fort (prehistoric)(possible)Duntrune Castle is thought to be the oldest continuously occupied castle on mainland Scotland, a claim that gives its…
• Dunstaffnage CastleCastle (medieval), Kiln (period Unassigned), Midden (period Unassigned), Structure (18th Century), Trench (13th Century)Dunstaffnage Castle is a ruined MacDougall fortress built in the 1220s on a narrow rock ledge above Loch Etive. Ewen…
• DunselmaCastleDunselma is a castle in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Perhaps its stones still hold the shape of hands that built them…
• Dunollie CastleCastle (medieval), Earthwork(s) (medieval)Dunollie Castle is a ruined medieval castle on a high promontory north of Oban in Argyll and Bute, Scotland…
• Dunderave CastleCastle (16th Century)Dunderave Castle is an L-plan stronghold built around 1500 by the MacNaughton clan after plague destroyed their…
• Dubh Loch, Glen ShiraCastle (medieval)Dubh Loch in Glen Shira marks a medieval castle, though no tower or wall still stands to prove the claim. The name…
• Duart CastleCastleDuart Castle is the surviving seat of Clan MacLean on the Isle of Mull, first recorded for them in 1350 through a…
• Drumhead HouseFarmhouse (18th Century) - (19th Century), Tower House (medieval)(possible)Drumhead House stands in Argyll and Bute as an eighteen-century farmhouse that may have grown from a medieval tower…
• Craignish CastleCastle (16th Century)Craignish Castle is a 16th-century tower house on the Argyll coast, built for the Campbell family and later expanded by…
• Colonsay, Loch An SgoltaireArtillery Fortification (17th Century), Castle (medieval)(possible), Summerhouse (19th Century)Marianne and her brother built a kitchen, bedroom and bathroom, then climbed the rock to watch rain strike the sea.…
• Claig CastleRuinsClaig Castle stands in ruins across Argyll and Bute, stripped of much of its former shape but still marked on the…
• Castles FarmBuilding(s) (period Unassigned), Castle (medieval)(possible)Castles Farm stands in Argyll and Bute as an unassigned building that may have begun as a medieval castle. Its exact…
• Castle SweenCastle (medieval)Castle Sween rose in the 1140s when Suibhne the Red built a stone curtain wall around a landing point for small…
• Castle LachlanCastle (medieval)Castle Lachlan is a ruined fifteenth-century stronghold on the shore of Loch Fyne, built by Clan Maclachlan and…
• Castle CoeffinCastleCastle Coeffin is a castle ruin on Lismore in Argyll and Bute, built in the 13th century on a promontory above Loch…
• Carrick CastleCastle (medieval)Carrick Castle is a 14th-century tower house on the west shore of Loch Goil, built probably by the Campbells when the…
• Carnassarie CastleGateway (17th Century), Outbuilding(s) (post Medieval), Tower House (medieval)Carnassarie Castle stands in Argyll and Bute as a medieval tower house later joined by a seventeenth-century gateway…
• Cairnburgh CastleCastleCairnburgh Castle splits across two small islands at the northern edge of the Treshnish Isles, with chambers on one…
• Bute, Wester Kames CastleCastle (16th Century), Tower House (19th Century) - (20th Century)Wester Kames Castle on Bute is a 16th-century tower house later shaped in the 19th and 20th centuries, still standing…
• Bute, Rothesay, Rothesay CastleCastle (13th Century), War Memorial (20th Century)Rothesay Castle stands on Bute as a thirteenth-century fortress marked by a twentieth-century war memorial. Stone walls…
• Breachacha CastleCastleBreachacha Castle is a ruined castle on the Argyll and Bute coast, recorded only as a castle on the public map. The sea…
• Barcaldine CastleTower House (medieval)Barcaldine Castle is a 16th-century tower house on the south shore of Loch Creran, built by Sir Duncan Campbell to…
• Bannachra CastleTower House (15th Century)Bannachra Castle is a badly ruined tower house on a wedge shaped promontory overlooking the Fruin Water and Loch…
• Ardmaddy CastleCountry House (18th Century), Tower House (medieval)Ardmaddy Castle is a privately occupied mansion near the west coast of Argyll, built around a strong rectangular tower…
• Ardencaple CastleCastle (medieval), Country House (18th Century)Ardencaple Castle began as a medieval stronghold for MacAulay lairds before Campbells of Argyll rebuilt it into an…
• Am Fraoch Eilean, Claig CastleCastle (medieval)Am Fraoch Eilean is a medieval castle in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, and its exact position is known. The name suggests…
• Airds CastleArchaeological placeAirds Castle stands as a ruined medieval fortress on a rocky headland above Carradale, watching Kilbrannan Sound and…
• Achallader Castle (ruins)CastleAchallader Castle stands in ruin across Argyll and Bute, its walls reduced to shadows rather than chambers. The loss is…

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