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Latitude: 55.4166 / 55°24'59"N
Longitude: -5.5896 / 5°35'22"W
OS Eastings: 172910
OS Northings: 619490
OS Grid: NR729194
Mapcode National: IRL Y3.CG7V
Mapcode Global: GBR DGLD.6H5
Plus Code: 9C7PCC86+J5
Entry Name: Kilkerran Castle
Listing Name: Kilkerran Road, Kilkerran Cottage with Gatepiers, Outbuildings, and Castle Remains
Listing Date: 28 August 1980
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 358693
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB22961
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200358693
Location: Campbeltown
County: Argyll and Bute
Town: Campbeltown
Electoral Ward: South Kintyre
Traditional County: Argyllshire
Tagged with: Castle
Circa 1825. Single storey and attic, 3-bay cottage with 2-storey battered square former lighthouse tower to rear. Painted cement-rendered and lined front with droved ashlar margins, roughcast side and rear elevations. Band course at eaves, raised margins to openings and projecting cills at windows of entrance front.
NE (REAR) ELEVATION: single storey additions flanking tower, 2-bay addition to left, with window at bay to left, lean-to entrance porch with small pointed-arch window at bay to right. Shallow projection centring tower to 1st floor cill height, narrow window at ground floor, eaves course and decorative cresting.
Timber sash and case windows, modern 4-pane at front, plate glass to rear. Grey slate roof, modern timber box dormers with plate glass casements at rear pitch, pyramidal bellcast roof with finial at tower. Roughcast coped apex stacks at gables, additional stack corbelled out from centre of NW elevation of tower, all with decorative octagonal cans.
OUTBUILDINGS: single storey, 2 and 3-bay outbuildings adjoining each other, set at angle to rear of cottage. Roughcast walls, 3-bay building with projecting porch at centre and corrugated-iron roof. Roughcast, coped stacks with octagonal cans to both buildings.
CASTLE: fragment surviving in rebuilt random rubble garden wall.
The remains are those of Kilkerran Castle, built in 1498 by James IV as part of his policy of controlling the MacDonalds of Kintyre.
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