
What is recorded here
Lismore, Tirefour Castle is an Iron Age broch in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Its ancient walls still stand where human hands first shaped stone, suggesting a community that valued strength, visibility or endurance enough to build there. The sea may have washed around it, storms may have struck it and people may have forgotten it for centuries before remembering again. What is certain is that the place survived long after its makers disappeared.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Lismore, Tirefour Castle as Broch (iron Age). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Lismore, Tirefour Castle is an Iron Age broch, built between 500 BC and 200 AD, and is important as a rare surviving example of early Scottish defensive and domestic architecture.
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Photo: M J Richardson · CC BY-SA 2.0