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Latitude: 55.8159 / 55°48'57"N
Longitude: -5.66 / 5°39'35"W
OS Eastings: 170799
OS Northings: 664131
OS Grid: NR707641
Mapcode National: GBR DFDB.Q78
Mapcode Global: WH0KD.121S
Plus Code: 9C7PR88R+92
Entry Name: Kilberry Castle
Listing Name: Kilberry Castle
Listing Date: 20 July 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 352312
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB18277
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200352312
Location: South Knapdale
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Kintyre and the Islands
Parish: South Knapdale
Traditional County: Argyllshire
Tagged with: Castle
Main block: L-plan two-storeys, attic and basement. Rubble in courses; gabled slate roofs. Crow-steps; mock angle-turrets with conical stone roofs; tower in re-entrant angle with conical slate roof. Moulded round-headed entrance with one stone with initials "A.C." and date "1497", and another with initial "J.C." and date "1884." Extensions at rear with gabled dormers; bay window; panel with date "1873".
INTERIOR: good marble fireplaces and plasterwork.
Domestic. Sect by Campbells of Kilberry. Incorporates foundations and some of the walls of the original castle which was accidentally burnt down in 1772 and patched up afterwards. Nearby is the site of St Bar's Chapel and burial ground of which nothing remains except a broken cross of Latin type and a few carved slabs, which are preserved in a small modern shed.
The 20th century archaeologist Marion Campbell lived in the building.
Listed building record updated in 2022.
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