What is recorded here

Eggerness Castle occupies a sharp Galloway promontory where medieval ambition may have claimed an older fort. Stone, tide and time have blurred the boundary between human pride and natural law. The sea still owns the final decision about what remains visible.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Eggerness Castle as Castle (medieval)(possible), Promontory Fort (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Eggerness Castle is a medieval castle and promontory fort located in Orkney, Scotland, likely built during the 13th or 14th century, possibly by Norse or Scottish rulers. It is remembered for its strategic coastal position and as an example of early medieval defensive architecture in the Northern Isles.

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