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Latitude: 56.2548 / 56°15'17"N
Longitude: -3.2061 / 3°12'21"W
OS Eastings: 325373
OS Northings: 707572
OS Grid: NO253075
Mapcode National: GBR 27.9ZN3
Mapcode Global: WH6R7.Q1HV
Plus Code: 9C8R7Q3V+WH
Entry Name: Falkland Palace - Castle
Listing Date: 1 February 1972
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 341010
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB8799
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200341010
Location: Falkland
County: Fife
Electoral Ward: Howe of Fife and Tay Coast
Parish: Falkland
Traditional County: Fife
Tagged with: Castle
13th and 14th centuries, destroyed 1337 and perhaps at least in part subsequently rebuilt. Remains comprise base of large circular well-tower, ashlar-built with triple chamfered ground course linked on north west by curtain wall to circular north tower; very fragmentary.
Scheduled Monument.
Built by the Macduffs, Earls of Fife; in 1371 to Robert Stuart Earl of Monteith later Duke of Albany; James II made Falkland a Palace 1460.
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