• Skipness Castle stands on the east side of the Kintyre peninsula in Scotland, near the village of Skipness. Together with the nearby Kilbrannan Chapel it is a scheduled...
  • With fine views over the Kilbrannan Sound to Arran, Skipness Castle is a 13th-century (or earlier) castle of enclosure, later consisting of a courtyard with a curtain...
  • Skipness Castle is like a square tower house with a walled courtyard to the southwest of it today.
  • There is nothing I like better than exploring a castle ruin however in the case of Skipness, the journey getting there aside, this doesn’t take much time.
  • A charter of 1261 shows that the place of Skipness was then in the hands of Dugald MacSween, son of the Sween who built Castle Sween.
  • Skipness Castle stands next to Skipness House demonstrating, through architecture, the passage of time as the families who owned the Estate gradually...
  • Skipness Castle is impressive as it has managed to survive for more than seven centuries in a surprisingly intact state.
  • An overview of Skipness Castle and Chapel, a monument demonstrating the changes in architectural form in Scottish Castles between the 1200s and 1500s.
  • Skipness Castle stands on the east side of the Kintyre peninsula with wonderful views over to the Isle of Arran.
  • Skipness Castle is located a short distance inland from the shore of Skipness Bay, on the east coast of Kintyre. The site would have provided the castle occupants with an open...