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Latitude: 56.1552 / 56°9'18"N
Longitude: -5.5896 / 5°35'22"W
OS Eastings: 177168
OS Northings: 701635
OS Grid: NM771016
Mapcode National: GBR DDLF.SJJ
Mapcode Global: WH0HP.3KK7
Plus Code: 9C8P5C46+35
Entry Name: Craignish Castle
Listing Name: Craignish Castle, Head of Loch Beag
Listing Date: 20 July 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 336318
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB5002
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200336318
Location: Craignish
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Mid Argyll
Parish: Craignish
Traditional County: Argyllshire
Tagged with: Castle
16th century. Keep. Square. 3 storeys. Harled; piended
slate roof. Corbelled parapet; angle turrets. Iron yett.
Interior modernised: Vaulted ground floor; Dungeon below
cut out of rock. Turnpike stair.
Addition to N: c. 1835. Originally a long wing; now reduced.
2 storeys and attic. Gabled roof; gabled dormer. Moulded
string-course. Gablet above entrance.
Rubble rampart to E.
Domestic. Formerly the seat of Campbells of Craignish and
of Jura. Acquired by Trench Gascoignes 1860. Recently
restored.
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