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Latitude: 56.1356 / 56°8'8"N
Longitude: -5.4847 / 5°29'4"W
OS Eastings: 183569
OS Northings: 699122
OS Grid: NR835991
Mapcode National: GBR DDVH.DH8
Mapcode Global: WH0HX.Q1FQ
Plus Code: 9C8P4GP8+64
Entry Name: Kilmartin Castle, Kilmartin
Listing Name: Kilmartin Castle, Kilmartin Village
Listing Date: 20 July 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 344080
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB11492
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Kilmartin, Kilmartin Castle
ID on this website: 200344080
Location: Kilmartin
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Mid Argyll
Parish: Kilmartin
Traditional County: Argyllshire
Tagged with: Tower house
Later 16th century Z-plan. 3 storeys. Rubble; gabled;
roofless. Crow-steps. Iron-barred windows. Vaulted ground
floor. Round towers at diagonally opposite corners.
Semi-circular turnpike stair on W. side. Entrance also.
Interior modernised: Vaulted ground floor. Great Hall on 1st
Floor.
De-scheduled 23 June 2000.
Ruin. Built as manse for John Carswell (1520-75) Rector
of Kilmartin 1553-65, who translated Knox's liturgy into
Gaelic - first printed book (1567) in that language.
Acquired by Alexander Campbell, 1st of Kilmartin 1674.
Replaced c.1735 by Kilmartin House (now gone) when the estate
was acquired by Malcorns of Dunblane.
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