Dunoon Castle | |
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General information | |
Status | No longer standing |
Location | Argyll and Bute, Scotland |
Address | Castle Gardens |
Town or city | Dunoon |
Country | Scotland, United Kingdom |
Coordinates | 55°56′44″N 4°55′26″W / 55.945599°N 4.9238077°W, National grid reference NS 04064 91102 |
Designations | Scheduled Monument: SM5450 |
Dunoon Castle is a ruined castle in Dunoon on the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland. The castle sat upon a cone-shaped hill about 80 feet (24 m) high. Very little remains of the castle's structure today. Castle House, built in 1822, stands a few yards north of the castle ruins.[1]
The remains of the castle, and a surrounding area, are a scheduled monument.[2][3]
The castle was a royal residence in the 14th century, and in the 17th century fell into ruins.[4]