Carnasserie Castle

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Carnasserie Castle
Carnasserie Castle

Carnasserie Castle

Creation time : around 1560
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : clergy
Construction: Quarry stone
Geographical location 56 ° 9 '4.2 "  N , 5 ° 28' 50.4"  W Coordinates: 56 ° 9 '4.2 "  N , 5 ° 28' 50.4"  W.
Room inside the ruin

Carnasserie Castle is a ruined castle in the sparsely populated region to the east of the Scottish Council Area Argyll and Bute . It is located north of the village of Kilmartin off today's A816 . The castle ruins are classified as a Scheduled Monument .

history

Carnasserie Castle was built for Protestant Bishop John Carswell in the 1560s . After his death it fell to the Campbells of Auchinbreck . In 1685 Carnasserie Castle fell victim to an uprising in the course of which it was destroyed. It then fell to the Campbells of Kilmartin and finally to the Malcolms of Poltalloch around 1830 , but was not rebuilt. In 1998 the castle ruins were subjected to a detailed archaeological investigation.

description

The castle was built in the style of a medieval fortress, but also has Renaissance features . The quarry stone masonry of the three-story building is between 1.50 m and 1.80 m thick. The stair tower, where the entrance is located, is in the northwest of the building. There are large vaulted rooms on the ground floor. The private rooms with a decorated fireplace can be found on the first floor. The former roofs have collapsed today. Carnasserie Castle had crenellated corner towers. The walls surrounded a courtyard. The former outbuildings are largely destroyed today and only preserved in fragments.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scheduled Monument - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ a b Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  3. ↑ a b Entry on Carnasserie Castle  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)

literature

  • Geoffrey Stell: Dunstaffnage and the castles of Argyll . Historic Scotland, Edinburgh, 1994, reprinted 1996. ISBN 0-7480-0481-5 .

Web links

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