Fincharn Castle
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 Fincharn Castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Fionchairn Castle, Glassery Castle | |
| Creation time : | around 1240 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg (Hallenhaus) | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Scottish nobility | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | ford | |
| Geographical location | 56 ° 11 '7.2 " N , 5 ° 23' 17" W | |
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Fincharn Castle , also Fionchairn Castle or Glassery Castle , is a ruined castle near the village of Ford on a rocky headland on the south-west bank of Loch Awe in the Scottish administrative unit Argyll and Bute . The Lord of Glassary had the castle built in the form of a hall house around 1240.
The building had two floors and is oriented in a north-west-south-east direction. The entrance is on the lower floor in the northwest gable. The hall building covers an area of approx. 11.8 meters × 5.3 meters. The quarry stone walls are about 1.35 meters thick, but 2.1 meters on the northwest gable.
Today only ruins up to 5 meters high have been preserved. Fincharn Castle is a Scheduled Monument .
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- Fincharn Castle . In: Canmore . Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved July 18, 2017.
- Scheduled Monument - entry . In: Historic Scotland .