What is recorded here

Castle Sinclair and Castle Girnigoe occupy one narrow Caithness peninsula, where rock-cut trenches, cliff edges and successive castle walls turned a small headland into a layered fortress for the Sinclair Earls of Caithness. The older keep still rises beside the remains of the 1606 castle, whose roofs and rooms were broken by the 1679 succession attack and then left to storm, grass and time. Walking through its surviving stones is like entering a house that kept being rebuilt because pride, danger and fashion would not let it stay quiet.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castle Sinclair as Trench(s) (second World War)(possible). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 100m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

The historic-place record does not grant public access. Check current conditions and ownership before entering land or a building.