List of castles in Scotland

This list of castles in Scotland is a link page for any castle in Scotland.

The first castles were built in Scotland in the 11th and 12th centuries, with the introduction of Norman influence. These motte and bailey castles were replaced with the first stone-built castles around 1200. By the late 14th century, the large curtain-walled castles had begun to give way to more modest tower houses, vertical dwellings with less formidable defences. This type of vertical house continued to be popular with Scotland's landowning class through to the late 17th century, when classical architecture made its first appearance in the country. Meanwhile the advance of artillery pressed military engineers to devise stronger fortifications for important royal strongholds.

In the late 18th century, medieval architecture was revived, and castle-style houses were built once more. These "castles" had no defensive capability, but drew on military and tower-house architecture for their decorative detail. This trend culminated in the Scottish Baronial style of the 19th century.

There have been well over two thousand castles in Scotland, although many are known only through historical records. They are found in all parts of the country, although tower houses and peel towers are concentrated along the border with England, while the best examples of larger Renaissance-era tower houses are clustered in the north-east.

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Argyll and Bute

City of Dundee

East Lothian

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Moray

Orkney

Scottish Borders

South Lanarkshire

West Lothian

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House of the Binns]

Western Isles ("na h-Eileanan Siar")

Fictional Castles

*McDuck Castle, home of Disney cartoon character Scrooge McDuck.
*The Black Island, a Tintin story featuring a castle based on Lochranza Castle.
*"The Ghosts of Inverloch", a Valérian comic, also features a Scottish castle.
*"Castle Dangerous", a novel by Sir Walter Scott, drew inspiration from Douglas Castle.
*Hogwarts Castle, School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the "Harry Potter" novels.

ee also

*List of castles
*Castles in England
*Castles in Wales
*Castles in Northern Ireland

Notes

References

* Coventry, Martin (2001) "The Castles of Scotland", 3rd Ed. Scotland: Goblinshead ISBN 1899874267

External links

* [http://www.castlexplorer.co.uk/maps.php Castle Explorer]
* [http://www.castlestories.net/map/Scotland.html CastleStories - Google Map Explorer]

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