Moil Castle

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Moil Castle
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Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Campbeltown
Geographical location 55 ° 25 '47.6 "  N , 5 ° 35' 50.3"  W Coordinates: 55 ° 25 '47.6 "  N , 5 ° 35' 50.3"  W.
Height: 29  m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference
Moil Castle (Scotland)
Moil Castle

Moil Castle is an abandoned low castle near Campbeltown on the Kintyre peninsula in the Scottish administrative unit Argyll and Bute .

The castle was a fortress of the MacDonald clan . Today there is an open field at this point with no traces of any building.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Martin Coventry: Castles of the Clans: The Strongholds and Seats of 750 Scottish Families and Clans . Goblinshead, Musselburgh 2010. ISBN 978-1-899874-36-1 . P. 364.
  2. ↑ a b c Moil Castle . In: Canmore . Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved November 17, 2017.