Castles and forts in Falkirk
The Discover Alone map has 25 castles and forts in Falkirk, Scotland. Below are the 25 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Torwood CastleGarden (17th Century)(possible), Tower House (16th Century)Torwood Castle is a 16th-century tower house on high ground between Falkirk and Stirling, built during the shift from…
Stenhousemuir, StenhouseHouse (17th Century), Sundial (post Medieval), Tower House (medieval)Stenhousemuir, Stenhouse is a 17th-century house in Falkirk, Scotland, still marked by a post-medieval sundial and the…
Rough Castle FortArchaeological placeRough Castle Fort is a small Roman camp on the Antonine Wall near Falkirk, built around 142 AD for Antoninus Pius and…
Rough CastleDefensive Pits (roman), Roman Fort (roman)Rough Castle is a small Roman fort on the Antonine Wall near Tamfourhill, built around 142 AD under Antoninus Pius to…
MannerstonTower House (medieval)Mannerston is a medieval tower house in Falkirk, Scotland, still marked on official maps despite the absence of public…
Larbert HouseCastle (medieval)(possible), Earthwork (medieval)Larbert House in Falkirk, Scotland, is a possible medieval castle and earthwork, its exact boundary marked to the…
CastlehillMotte (medieval)Castlehill is a medieval motte in Falkirk, Scotland, where earth was shaped into a defensive landmark during the middle…
CastlecaryRoman Fort (roman)Roman soldiers marched the narrow Castlecary gap because the Dullator Bog and eastern marshes blocked every other…
Castlecary CastleTower House (15th Century)Castlecary Castle is a 15th-century tower house perched on a Falkirk escarpment, the newest link in a long chain of…
Bo'ness, Kinneil HouseCountry House (16th Century), Tower House (15th Century)Kinneil House stands in Bo'ness as a 15th-century tower later changed into a 16th-century country house. Its stones may…
Blackness CastleCastle (medieval), Prison (15th Century)Blackness Castle is a long, narrow stone ship beached on the Firth of Forth, built by Sir George Crichton in the 1440s…
Almond CastleTower House (medieval)Almond Castle stands in Falkirk as a medieval tower house born from the older Haining barony, where Crawford and….jpg?width=1280)
Airth CastleCastle (medieval), Hotel (20th Century)Airth Castle stands on a fifteen-metre hill above the Pow of Airth, projecting feudal power across the Carse of Falkirk…
Castlecary FortArchaeological placeMnemo knows the first chamber because she shaped the chamber before it had a name. The Fort of Castlecary stands in…- Slamannan, Castle HillCastle (medieval)(possible)Slamannan Castle Hill rises above Falkirk as a possible medieval castle, its exact purpose hidden beneath grass and…
- Grangemouth, Kerse HouseHouse (period Unassigned), Tower House (15th Century)Kerse House stands in Grangemouth as a fifteenth-century tower house, its stones unchanged since medieval times. The…
- Grangemouth, Inveravon TowerTower House (medieval)Inveravon Tower rises in Grangemouth, Falkirk, a medieval tower house built to command the surrounding land. Its stones…
- Falkirk, 'maiden Castle'Motte (medieval)(possible)Falkirk, 'maiden Castle' is a possible medieval motte in Scotland, recorded only as a point accurate to the nearest ten…
- Dunmore Park, Elphinstone Tower, Airth TowerBurial Vault (19th Century), Tower House (16th Century)Dunmore Park holds a sixteenth-century tower and a nineteenth-century burial vault, layering martial pride and mortal…
- Dunipace, Herbertshire CastleTower House (16th Century)(possible)Herbertshire Castle rises in Falkirk as a possible sixteenth-century tower house, its stones marked by age rather than…
- Castle RankineCastle (13th Century)(possible)Castle Rankine vanished into the Falkirk soil, leaving only a buried curtain wall and the memory of Gert Ranky, who…
- Carron, Skaithmuir TowerTower House (medieval)Carron, Skaithmuir Tower stands in Falkirk as a medieval tower house, its exact position known to the nearest metre.…
- Bo'ness, Kinneil Road, Castle LyonCastle (15th Century)Castle Lyon rose in Bo'ness during the 15th Century, a stone anchor beside Kinneil Road that likely watched trade and…
- Bo'ness, Carriden HouseCountry House (19th Century), Hospital (first World War), Tower House (16th Century)Carriden House in Bo'ness has stood since the sixteenth century as a tower house, later becoming a nineteenth-century…
- Castlehill, MotteArchaeological placeMotte and mound still break the flat Falkirk grass, but every human trace has vanished. The land remembers shape while…