Auchenbreck Castle

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Auchenbreck Castle , also Auchinbreck Castle , is a castle stable on the Cowal Peninsula in the Scottish administrative unit Argyll and Bute . The remains of the castle are in the municipality of Kilmodan near the opening of the Glendaruel valley , 9 km north of the village of Tighnabruaich . Little remains of the former castle; all you can see is a flat, rectangular platform, about 35 meters by 18 meters, between the Auchenbreck Farm and the Auchenbreck Burn stream . This platform is partially limited by a wall that is up to 2.2 meters high.

The castle was owned by the Campbells of Auchinbreck , a branch of the Campbell clan , descendants of Duncan , a younger son of Duncan Campbell, 1st Lord Campbell . He was given lands near Dunoon in 1435 and then others in Glassary . In the 16th century the family was called "of Auchinbreck" and the castle first appeared on Timothy Pont's map at the end of the 16th century. Around 1703 John Fullarton , former Minister of Kilmodan and later Bishop of Edinburgh , bought the site. Fullarton renamed the property “Greenhall” and was the last to live in the castle. When the property was sold in 1728, after Fullarton's death, a country house was found there that could have been built from the bricks of the castle. The castle itself was in its current, ruinous state as early as 1870.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland: Argyll. An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments . Volume 7: Mid Argyll and Cowal: Medieval and Later Monuments . Her Majesty's Stationary Office, London 1992. p. 213.

Web links

  • Auchenbreck Castle . In: CANMORE . Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved February 6, 2017.

Coordinates: 55 ° 59 ′ 6.4 "  N , 5 ° 10 ′ 23.4"  W.