Castles and forts in Inverclyde
The Discover Alone map has 14 castles and forts in Inverclyde, Scotland. Below are the 14 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Newark CastleCastle (15th Century)George Maxwell raised Newark Castle in 1478 beside the last shipyard on the Lower Clyde. Ferguson Shipbuilders still…
Gourock, Gourock CastleCastle (medieval)Gourock Castle stands as a medieval ruin in Inverclyde, Scotland, marked on official maps with one-metre accuracy. The…
Gourock, Bath Street, Gourock CastleCastle (19th Century) (1840)Gourock Castle stood on Bath Street from 1840, a nineteenth-century castle built for private life rather than public…
Finlaystone HouseCastle (medieval), Country House (18th Century)Finlaystone House in Inverclyde, Scotland, is a medieval castle later rebuilt as an 18th Century country house. It may…_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4972550.jpg?width=1280)
Duchal CastleMotte (medieval)Duchal Castle is a ruined medieval motte and courtyard stronghold built by the de Lyle family in the 13th century…
Castle LevanCastleCastle Levan is a castle in Inverclyde, Scotland. Perhaps its walls still hold the shape of hands that built them…- Wemyss Bay, Castle WemyssCastle (medieval)Castle Wemyss stands in Wemyss Bay, Inverclyde, a medieval fortress marked on the national record with one-metre…
- Kelly CastleCastle (medieval)Kelly Castle stands in Inverclyde, Scotland, a medieval structure whose bones still touch the earth. It is the kind of…
- Gourock, Castle LevanCastle (medieval)Castle Levan still stands in Gourock, a medieval ruin reduced to broken stone and ghost stories. It is the kind of…
- Easter Greenock CastleCastle (medieval)Easter Greenock Castle anchored the Crawford estates near Greenock from the mid-sixteenth century until railway works…
- Castle Hill, Gotter LinnFort (period Unknown)Castle Hill, Gotter Linn rises in Inverclyde as an unclassified fort, its age and builders absent from every known…
- Ardgowan CastleTower House (medieval)Ardgowan Castle stands as a three-storey ruin atop a sixty-foot promontory in Inverclyde, overlooking the coastal flats…
- Easter Greenock Castle (site of)Archaeological placeEaster Greenock Castle (site of) marks a lost fortress where the Crawfurds held land from the late 1300s until the…
- Dunrod CastleCastle (medieval)Dunrod Castle stands in Inverclyde as a medieval castle, though no visible chamber or gate remains for a stranger to…