What is recorded here

Kinkell Castle is a late 16th-century tower house in Ross and Cromarty, built for the MacKenzies of Gairloch and marked by a defaced 1594 shield in its hall fireplace. Its harled walls rise three storeys to a garret, with a circular stair tower at the south-east corner and gun-loops guarding the entrance. After falling into farm use and desertion, Gerald Laing restored it from 1966, removing a later wing and returning it to occupation. The castle still stands as a listed building, its small Z-plan and crowstepped gables preserving the shape of a household that once watched the Highland edge.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Kinkell Castle as Farmstead (period Unassigned)(possible). 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.

Kinkell Castle is a 16th-century tower house located in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, and was likely built by the Drummond family, a powerful noble lineage in the region. It is remembered for its historical association with the Drummonds and as an example of early defensive architecture in the Scottish Borders.

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