What is recorded here

Langwell Castle is a large rectangular medieval keep in Caithness, Scotland, whose northern wall still stands ten feet high beside a deep ditch. Tradition attributes its building to John Beg, third son of the Earl of Sutherland, while later drawings show two square towers joined by a curtain wall above the junction of streams. The interior has collapsed into a weed-choked mass of rubble, but the outline of a north-east turret and a stone causeway across the ditch remain visible.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Langwell Castle as Castle (medieval). 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.

Langwell Castle was a medieval stronghold, likely built in the 13th or 14th century by a local noble family, and is remembered for its strategic position in the Scottish Borders region. Its remains are important as a historical and archaeological site, reflecting the turbulent history of border defense and feudal landholding in medieval Scotland.

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