What is recorded here

Kelspoke Castle on Bute is a possible medieval castle beside township and rig and furrow fields that have shaped the land into the 18th Century. The castle may never have stood tall, but the township and fields suggest people lived there long enough to mark the soil repeatedly. Perhaps a small hall, a yard and a few rooms were lost before the castle name became certain. What remains is a place where domestic life, not grand defence, is the clearer truth.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Bute, Kelspoke Castle as Castle (medieval)(possible), Enclosure (period Unassigned), Rig and Furrow (medieval) - (post Medieval), Township (medieval) - (18th Century). 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.

Kelspoke Castle on the Isle of Bute is believed to have been built by the Maxwell family in the 16th century. It is remembered for its strategic location and as a symbol of the power struggles between the Maxwells and the Earl of Argyll during the late medieval period.

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