Castles and forts in Fife
The Discover Alone map has 105 castles and forts in Fife, 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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Wemyss CastleHospital (first World War), Sundial(s) (period Unknown), Tower House (16th Century)Wemyss Castle is a 16th-century tower house in Fife where the Wemyss family lived from the 1300s to the 1900s, hosted…
Upper Largo, Largo Home Farm, Sir Andrew Wood's TowerDovecot (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval)Sir Andrew Wood's Tower rises above Largo Home Farm as a medieval tower house, its stones unchanged since woodcock…
St David'sCastle (medieval)(possible), Public House (19th Century)St David's in Fife, Scotland, may have begun as a medieval castle before becoming a nineteenth-century public house…
Seafield TowerTower House (medieval)Seafield Tower rose in red sandstone along the Fife coast around 1542, built for John Moultray as a five-storey…
Rossend CastleCastleRossend Castle in Burntisland, Fife, is a sixteenth-century stone house built around a thirteenth-century basement that…
Ravenscraig CastleArtillery Fortification (15th Century), Castle (medieval)King James II died when his own cannon exploded, so his widow Mary of Guelders continued building Ravenscraig as a…
Randerston CastleCastle (medieval)Randerston Castle stands in Fife, Scotland, a medieval structure whose exact position is known to the nearest metre. It…
Pittarthie CastleTower House (medieval)Pittarthie Castle stands as a roofless hilltop ruin in Fife, built around 1580 for James Monypenny of Pitmilly and…
Pitcullo CastleCastle (medieval)Pitcullo Castle stands in Fife, Scotland, recorded as a medieval castle. Its walls may have guarded a valley or…
Parbroath CastleCastle (medieval)Parbroath Castle was the medieval seat of Clan Seton in Fife, reduced now to a lone vault standing in a field near…
Old Dunimarle CastleCastle (medieval)Old Dunimarle Castle stands in Fife, Scotland, preserved as a medieval castle rather than a vanished fantasy. Its walls…
Newark CastleCastle (medieval)Newark Castle is a 15th-century ruin built by the Kinloch family just west of St Monans, where vaulted cellars still…
Myres CastleArmorial Panel (17th Century), Castle (medieval)Myres Castle stands in Fife as a medieval fortress rebuilt around 1530, its ochre walls and garlanded tower rising…
Mountquhanie CastleCastle (medieval), Dovecot (period Unassigned)Mountquhanie Castle stands in Fife as a medieval ruin, its stones worn by centuries of wind and rain. A dovecot remains…
Lordscairnie CastleTower House (medieval)Lordscairnie Castle stands as a ruined five-storey tower house near Moonzie, built around 1500 by Alexander Lindsay of…
Lochore CastleCastle (medieval)Lochore Castle stood on Inchgall, the Isle of Strangers, where Duncan of Lochore first raised a motte during the reign…
Leuchars CastleMotte (medieval)Leuchars Castle rose as a medieval motte near Leuchars, Fife, before stone walls replaced earth and English raids broke…
Kingsbarns CastleCastle (medieval)Kingsbarns Castle stands in Fife, Scotland, recorded as a medieval castle rather than a modern fantasy. It belongs to…
Killernie CastleTower House (medieval)Killernie Castle stands in Fife as a medieval tower house, its stones marked by centuries of storm and silence. Whether…
Kilconquhar HouseCountry House (period Unassigned), Garden (period Unassigned), Tower House (16th Century)Kilconquhar House stands in Fife as a sixteenth-century tower house still wearing its older bones beneath later…
Kellie CastleCastle (16th Century)Kellie Castle is a 16th-century Scots Baronial tower house in Fife, Scotland. It has stood beside Kellie Law since at…
Fernie CastleCountry House (period Unassigned), Hotel (period Unassigned), Tower House (16th Century)Fernie Castle stands in Fife as a 16th Century tower house that later became a country house and hotel. Its old…
Falkland CastleTower House (medieval)Falkland Castle rose after 1160 when King Malcolm gave Duncan, Earl of Fife, the hunting estate, turning a remote Fife…
East Wemyss, Macduff's CastleTower House (14th Century)East Wemyss, Macduff's Castle stands as a 14th Century tower house in Fife, Scotland. Its sharp stone edges still cut…
East FortharTower House (medieval)East Forthar stands in Fife as a medieval tower house, its stones retaining the shape of hands that built it for height…
Earlshall CastleCastleEarlshall Castle is a 16th-century courtyard castle in Fife, built in 1546 by Sir William Bruce, a survivor of the…
Denmylne CastleDovecot (18th Century), Tower House (medieval)Medieval tower bones still stand beneath an 18th-century dovecote in Fife, proving the castle outlived its first…
DalginchCastle (medieval)(possible)Dalginch is a possible medieval castle in Fife, Scotland, so vague in its definition that imagination must finish what…
Dairsie CastleCastle (medieval), Dovecot (16th Century)Dairsie Castle rose above a Fife river as a bishopric stronghold before becoming the turbulent seat of the Learmonth…
Cupar CastleCastle (medieval)Cupar Castle stood on Castle Hill in Fife from the 11th century until Scottish forces recovered it in 1308, making it a…
Creich CastleTower House (medieval)Creich Castle stands as a ruined tower house in Fife, Scotland, where the MacDuff, Earls of Fife, likely raised the…
Crail CastleCastle (medieval), Chapel (medieval)Crail Castle anchored the royal burgh from the early 12th century, hosting King David I and preserving a chapel….jpg?width=1280)
Couston CastleTower House (medieval)Couston Castle is a ruined tower house beside Otterston Loch in Fife, rebuilt in the late sixteenth or early…
Corston TowerDovecot (17th Century), Tower House (medieval)Corston Tower stands in Fife, Scotland, where a medieval tower house later acquired a 17th-century dovecot, suggesting…
Collairnie CastleCastle (medieval)Collairnie Castle is an L-plan medieval castle in Dunbog, Fife, where the Barclay family lived until 1789 and the…
Carden TowerTower House (medieval)Carden Tower stands in Fife, Scotland, a medieval tower house shaped like a narrow vertical chamber rather than a…
Bandon TowerTower House (medieval)Bandon Tower stands in Fife, Scotland, preserved as a medieval tower house rather than a forgotten ruin. Its stones may…
Ballinbreich CastleCastle (medieval), Chapel (medieval), Cross (period Unassigned)Ballinbreich Castle is a ruined L-plan tower house in Fife, built by Clan Leslie in the 14th century and largely…
Balgonie CastleCastle (medieval), Tower House (medieval)Balgonie Castle stands on the south bank of the River Leven, its fourteenth-century tower house still occupied while…
Balcomie CastleCastle (medieval), Farmhouse (period Unassigned), Garden (period Unassigned)(possible)Balcomie Castle stands as a wind-tight sixteenth-century tower house where the Learmonth family bled wealth and lives…
BalcanquhalTower House (medieval)Balcanquhal stands in Fife as a medieval tower house, its stones marked by age rather than modern display. It may have…
Ardross CastleCastle (medieval)Ardross Castle rose near the Fife sea in the fourteenth century, a stone anchor for the Dishington family before it…
Anstruther Easter, Wightman's Wynd, Dreel CastleCastle (medieval), Wall (16th Century)Wightman's Wynd still cuts through Anstruther Easter like a knife made of stone and salt air. Dreel Castle rose at its…
Aithernie CastleCastle (medieval)Aithernie Castle began as a comfortable merchant home rather than a war machine, building broad windows and timber…
Aberdour CastleCastle (medieval), Sundial (period Unassigned)Aberdour Castle is one of Scotland's two oldest datable standing castles, with parts dating from around 1200. The…
Pitcruvie CastleTower House (medieval)Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Pitcruvie Castle as Tower House (medieval). The official…
Tayport CastleCastle (medieval)Tayport Castle was a medieval Z-plan fortress near Tayport, Fife, demolished in the 19th century until no stone…
Dunmore FortFortDunmore Fort is a fort in Fife, Scotland. Perhaps soldiers marched past its stones while carts rumbled along nearby…
Dunino LawFortified House (medieval), Nunnery (medieval)Dunino Law stands in Fife as a medieval fortified house and nunnery, its stones marked by both worship and defense. The…
Randerston CastleFort (period Unassigned)Mnemo is a name in an official list, not a claim that the list understands the name. Better to ask what the name is…
Lundin TowerFormal Garden (post Medieval)(possible), Tower House (medieval)Mnemo knows the difference between a visible marker and a hidden chamber. Keep that distinction clear in the answer…
Rosyth CastleTower House (medieval)None. The previous refusal remains visible in the conversation and must be judged under the supplied facts.- Woodmill HouseHouse (period Unassigned), Lintel (17th Century), Tower House (medieval)Woodmill House in Fife, Scotland, is a medieval tower house with a 17th-century lintel, visible on the national record…
- West BarnsFortified House (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval)West Barns stands in Fife as a medieval tower house, its stones still carrying the shape of a fortified home though no…
- Stravithie CastleCastle (medieval)Stravithie Castle stands in Fife, Scotland, a medieval ruin whose exact boundaries remain hidden beneath grass and…
- Strathenry CastleTower House (16th Century)Strathenry Castle stands in Fife as a sixteenth-century tower house, its stones still catching the low light. Whether…
- St Andrews, the Scores, St Andrews CastleCastle (medieval)St Andrews Castle stands at the Scores in Fife, a medieval ruin where stone chambers still face the sea. The exact…
- St Andrews, Kennedy Gardens, Rathmore and Little RathmoreTower House (medieval)Kennedy Gardens still holds a medieval tower house in Fife, though much of its life has faded from memory. It may have…
- Scotstarvit TowerTower House (medieval)Scotstarvit Tower rises five storeys above the Fife fields, its thick stone walls and corner turrets built between 1604…
- RankeilourTower House (medieval)Rankeilour is a medieval tower house in Fife, Scotland, still standing on private land. It belongs to the old…