Castles and forts in Highland
The Discover Alone map has 191 castles and forts in Highland, 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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Tulloch CastleTower House (16th Century)Tulloch Castle is a modern house built 1918 to 1923 that swallowed the basement of an early sixteenth-century tower…
Thurso CastleCastle (17th Century)George, Earl of Caithness, erected Thurso Castle in 1660 as a fine Scottish mansion, but the building vanished when a…
Tain CastleCastle (medieval)No reliable account exists before the sixteenth century, yet the castle stood tall enough to demand erasure when its…
Swiney CastleCastle (medieval)Swiney Castle is a medieval castle in Highland, Scotland. Its remains form a grass-covered mound about 18m across and…
Strome CastleCastle (medieval)Strome Castle stands in the Highland as a medieval castle, marking a place where human hands shaped the landscape long…
Skye, Kyleakin, Caisteal MaolRune Inscribed Stone (medieval), Tower House (medieval)Kyleakin holds Caisteal Maol, a medieval tower house and rune-inscribed stone on Skye. The runes mark the site as a…
Skye, Duntulm CastleCastle (medieval), Dun (prehistoric)(possible)Duntulm Castle on Skye may have begun as a prehistoric dun before becoming a medieval castle, though the boundary…
Skye, Dun ScaichCastle (medieval)Dun Scaich stands on Skye as a medieval castle, its stones marked by age rather than grand display. The Highland….jpg?width=1280)
Skibo CastleBishops Palace (16th Century), Castle (medieval), Country House (19th Century)No wall from the medieval castle remains, yet workmen digging foundations for Andrew Carnegie's new home in 1899…
Skelbo CastleCastle (14th Century), House (17th Century), Motte and Bailey (medieval)Skelbo Castle is a scheduled monument in the Highland where a medieval motte and bailey later became a 14th-century…
ShandwickCastle (medieval)Shandwick is a ruined medieval castle and chapel in Highland, Scotland, where bones still surface beneath the grass.…
Rockfield Farm, Little Tarrel CastleTower House (medieval)Rockfield Farm, Little Tarrel Castle is a medieval Tower House in Highland, Scotland, still standing where human hands….jpg?width=1280)
RedcastleCastle (medieval), Motte (medieval)(possible), Tower House (medieval)Redcastle stands on the Black Isle as a roofless shell where William the Lion erected Ederdour in the twelfth century.…
Raasay, Brochel CastleCastle (medieval)Atlantic storms may have battered the coast, yet no written fact names that sea or describes the castle walls. Brochel…
Proncy CastleCastle (medieval), Motte (medieval)Proncy Castle stands as a turf-hidden stone tower above an older earthen motte in Highland, Scotland, marking lands…
Ormond CastleCastle (medieval), Fort (prehistoric)(possible)Ormond Castle stood on Ormond Hill as a royal stronghold from 1179 until Cromwell’s forces destroyed it in 1650…
Old Keiss CastleCastle (medieval)Old Keiss Castle stands in Caithness as a medieval castle marked on the official map near Keiss. It is not a new toy or…
Newmore CastleTower House (medieval)Newmore Castle is a Post Medieval tower house in Highland, Scotland, marked by a date-stone of 1625 and narrow window…
Muckrach CastleCastle (medieval)Muckrach Castle rose in 1598 as the proud seat of the Grants of Rothiemurchus, binding timber inside stone walls…
Mingary CastleCastle (medieval)Mingary Castle stands in Kilchoan Bay, Ardnamurchan, where seawater touches three sides of its medieval walls. The…
Milntown CastleTower House (medieval)Milntown Castle was a 16th century towerhouse built by Andrew Munro around 1500, serving as a seat for the Earls of…
Lochindorb CastleCastle (medieval), Human Remains (period Unassigned)Lochindorb Castle stands as a medieval ruin in the Highland, marked by a scheduled monument and unassigned human…
Loch-an-eilein CastleCastle (medieval)Loch-an-eilein Castle stands in the Highland as a medieval castle, marked on the official map with a point accurate to…
Lethendry CastleFarmstead (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval)Lethendry Castle is a small L-shaped medieval tower house in the Highland whose basement and two storeys were swallowed…
Langwell CastleCastle (medieval)Langwell Castle is a large rectangular medieval keep in Caithness, Scotland, whose northern wall still stands ten feet…
Knoydart, InverieCastle (medieval)(possible), Mound (medieval)Knoydart, Inverie holds a possible medieval castle and mound above the Highland edge, where stone and soil still mark…
Knock CastleCastleKnock Castle stands in ruin on the buried heart of Dun Horavaig, an Iron Age fort swallowed by later stone. Its thick…
Kinloch CastleCastleKinloch Castle stands on Rhum as a post medieval country house, listed for its architecture and still visible through a….jpg?width=1280)
Kinkell CastleTower House (16th Century)Kinkell Castle is a compact 16th century tower house in Ross and Cromarty, built for the MacKenzies of Gairloch with…
Kilcoy CastleTower House (17th Century)Kilcoy Castle is a four-storey tower house built from warm red rubble on the Black Isle, its walls still marked by…
Inverlochy CastleCastle (medieval)Inverlochy Castle stands as a medieval fortress in the Highland, built between 1058 and 1559 to command the narrow….jpg?width=1280)
Invergarry CastleCastle (medieval)Invergarry Castle rose as a tall five-storey tower above Loch Oich, watching the Great Glen for the MacDonells of…
Inshoch CastleTower House (medieval)Inshoch Castle stands as a ruined tower house in the Auldearn parish, its origins tracing to the second half of the…
Helmsdale CastleTower House (medieval)Helmsdale Castle rose as a circular tower house near the Helmsdale River mouth, reportedly built in 1488 by the seventh…
Foulis CastleCastle (medieval), Country House (18th Century)Foulis Castle is an 18th-century country house in the Highland that still contains 17th-century pine timbers and older…
Fort William Old FortFortFort William Old Fort is a fort in Highland, Scotland. Perhaps soldiers marched past its stones while rain erased their…
Forse CastleCastle (medieval)Forse Castle stands on a steep rocky peninsula in Highland, Scotland, where seven-foot walls still rise thirty feet….jpg?width=1280)
Fairburn TowerTower House (medieval)Without a roof and with little more than wall-head remaining, the tower stood exposed on a long ridge for centuries.….jpg?width=1280)
Erchless CastleTower House (medieval)Erchless Castle is a medieval tower house in the Highland that the Chisholm family has owned since the 15th century.….jpg?width=1280)
Embo HouseCastle (medieval)(possible), House (period Unassigned)Embo House stands in Dornoch, Sutherland, where a medieval castle belonging to the Gordons of that Ilk gave way in 1767…
Eilean Donan CastleCastle (medieval), Fort (period Unassigned), War Memorial (20th Century)Eilean Donan Castle stands on a tidal island where three sea lochs meet, rebuilt in the twentieth century after Royal…
Edderton MainsCastle (medieval)(possible), Fort (period Unknown)(possible), House (post Medieval)Edderton Mains is a ruined house in Easter Ross that may have covered a castle built by William the Lion in 1179. The…
Dunvegan CastleCastleDunvegan Castle has guarded a sharp Skye inlet since the thirteenth century, becoming the continuing seat of Clan…
Duntulm CastleCastleDuntulm Castle stands in Highland, Scotland, marked as a scheduled monument and dated from the medieval period through…
Dunscaith CastleCastleDunscaith Castle is a ruined coastal stronghold on the Isle of Skye that changed hands between the MacAskills, Clan…
Dunrobin CastleCastle (14th Century), Country House (19th Century), War Memorial (20th Century)Dunrobin Castle stands above the Dornoch Firth as the largest house in northern Scotland, blending a fourteenth-century…
Duncraig CastleCastleDuncraig Castle stands in Highland, Scotland, as a post medieval country house dating from 1560 AD to 1900 AD. Its…
Dùn GerashaderFortDùn Gerashader is a fort in Highland, Scotland. Perhaps soldiers stood watch on those stones while storm fronts rolled…
Dùn DeargFortDùn Dearg is a fort in Highland, Scotland. Perhaps red stones still glow there at dusk, marking a boundary nobody…
Dun CreichCastle (medieval), Fort (prehistoric), Vitrified Stone (prehistoric)Dun Creich stacks a medieval tower above a vitrified fort on a peninsula overlooking the Dornoch Firth. Fire may have…
Dirlot CastleCastle (medieval)Dirlot Castle is a medieval castle in Highland, Scotland, where a small keep and outer rampart still stand on an….jpg?width=1280)
Dingwall, Castle Street, Dingwall CastleCastle (medieval), Motte (medieval)(possible)Dingwall Castle stands on Castle Street as a medieval castle and possible motte, its exact position known within one…
Dalcross CastleCastle (medieval)Dalcross Castle is an early 17th century tower-built castle in Highland, Scotland, built in 1621 by the 8th Lord Lovat.…
CoulmoreCastle (medieval)(possible), Enclosure (period Unassigned), Rig and Furrow (medieval) - (post Medieval)Coulmore is a possible medieval castle in the Highland, its boundary still marked by rig and furrow fields that have…
Coroghon CastleCastleCoroghon Castle stands on a sheer rock stack above Canna, preserving the only tangible Clanranald investment in the….jpg?width=1280)
Cluny CastleCastle (medieval)Cluny Castle stands in Highland, Scotland, occupying the site where a older residence was burnt by the Duke of…
Cawdor CastleCastle (medieval)Cawdor Castle has stood in the Highland since the medieval era, its stones carrying at least eight centuries of breath…
Castle VarrichCastleCastle Varrich is a ruined watchtower on a rocky outcrop above the Kyle of Tongue, built perhaps in the 15th or 16th…
Castle TioramCastle (medieval), Midden (period Unassigned), Hanging Bowl (bronze)(period Unassigned)Castle Tioram stands at Cur Doirlinn, Moidart, a 13th-century castle later shaped into a keep tower and domestic…
Castle StuartCastle (medieval)Castle Stuart stands in the Highland as a medieval castle where the Earl of Moray built a large mansion about 1625…