More than 1200 castles and other medieval buildings can be found in Scotland; here we have a list of more than 300 of them, mostly castles, divided over several pages. When you miss an important monument, or see an error, please mail us. We tried to find a website for every castle to provide more information and pictures.
Choose a letter of scroll to the desired castle. The last column points to a website of the castle or its owner itself.

Name	Century	Remarks	Area	Site
Gilbertfield Castle	16	Towerhouse, Ruin	South Lanarkshire
Gilnockie Tower	16	Towerhouse	Dumfries-shire
Girnigoe Castle	15	Near Sinclair Castle; it is not clear if there were 1 or 2 different castles	Highlands
Glamis Castle	14	Now a hotel	Glamis, near Dundee	YES
Glenapp Castle	19	Now a hotel	Ayrshire, Ballantrae	YES
Glenbuchat Castle	16	Also called Glenbucket, ruins	Grampians, Aberdeenshire
Glendevon Castle	18		Perthshire
Glengarry Castle		Country house, now a hotel	Highlands, Loch Oich	YES
Glengorm Castle	19	Selfcatering, Bed and Breakfast	Argyll, Mull	YES
Grant Castle	15		Grampians
Greenan Castle	16	Towerhouse	Ayrshire
Guthrie Castle	15		Angus
Gylen Castle	16	Ruin	Ayrshire, Isle of Kerrera

Name	Century	Remarks	Area	Site
Innis Chonnel Castle	13	Closed to the public	Argyll
Inveraray Castle	18	Recent castle, well preserved	Argyll
Castle of Invercauld	16	Now a luxurious hotel / guesthouse	Braemar, Aberdeenshire
Invergarry Castle	17	Ruin	Highlands, Inverness-shire
Inverlochy Castle	13	The newer castle is a hotel, the old one a ruin	Highlands, Inverness-shire
Invermark Castle	16	Ruin	Angus, Glen Esk
Inverness Castle	19	Live webcam Inverness Castle	Highlands, Inverness

Name	Century	Remarks	Area	Site
Johnstone Castle		Chopin once stayed here	Clyde

Name	Century	Remarks	Area	Site
Kames Castle	14	Self catering cottages present	Highlands, Isle of Bute	YES
Keiss Castle	17	Ruin	Highlands
Kelburn Castle	13	Now a hotel	North Ayrshire / Clyde	YES
Kellie Castle	14	A ruin, but quite nice	Fife
Castle Kennedy		Ruin, burned down in 1716; quite nice to see	Galloway
Kilbirnie Place			Ayrshire
Kilchurn Castle	17	Nice ruin	Argyll
Kilcoy Castle	14	MacKenzie castle	Ross
Kildonan Tower	14	Ruin	Ayrshire, Arran
Kildrummy Castle	13	Must have been impressive once, now a ruin	Grampians, Aberdeenshire
Kilmartin Manor	16	Towerhouse	Argyll
Kilmory Castle			Argyll
Kilravock Castle	15	Now a large Bed & Breakfast	Highlands, Inverness-shire
Kincardine Castle	12	Old ruin and a Victorian country house	Grampians, Aberdeenshire	YES
Kindrochit Castle	11	Former head quarters of the kings, now a ruin	Grampians, Aberdeenshire
Kingencleugh Castle	17	Ruin	Ayrshire
Kinloch Castle	19		Isle of Rum
Kinlochaline Castle	14	Renovated, but closed to the public	Morvern
Kinnaird Castle	15		Angus
Kinnaird Head Castle	15	Lighthouse and a museum	Fraserburgh
Kinfauns Castle	14	Now a hotel	Perthshire, near Perth
Kirkconnell Tower	16		Dumfries
Kisimul Castle	12	Also called Barra Castle	Isle of Barra
Knock Castle	15	Also called Caisteal Camus	Highlands, Skye
Knockamillie Castle	15	Only 1 wall still stands	Argyll

Name	Century	Remarks	Area	Site
Lachlan Castle	13		Argyll
Lauriston Castle	16		Edinburgh
Law Castle	15	Towerhouse	West Kilbride
Leith Hall	17	Amusing country house/castle	Grampians, Aberdeenshire
Castle Leod	17	House of the clan MacKenzie	Strathpeffer
Leslie Castle		Closed to the public	Aberdeenshire, Leslie
Lethendy Tower	16	Very luxurious guest house	Pertshire
Castle Levan	14	Bed & Breakfast	Renfrewshire
Lews Castle	19	Fake Tudor castle	Western Isles, Stornoway
Liberton Tower	15	Renovated	Edinburgh
Lochdoon Castle	13	Due to the building of a dam, the castle has been relocated, stone by stone	Ayrshire, Loch Doon
Lochdore Castle	15	Ruin	Near Loch Leven
Lochhouse Tower	16	Ruin	Dumfries-shire, Moffat
Lochindorb Castle	13	Ruin	Highlands, near Grantown-on-Spey
Lochleven Castle	13		near Kinross
Lochmaben Castle	12		Dumfriesshire
Lochnaw Castle	16		Galloway, near Stranraer
Lochranza Castle	14	Hunting lodge for the Scottish kings	Ayrshire, Arran
Lochwood Tower or Castle	15	Ruin	Dumfries-shire, Moffat
Lordscairnie Castle	15	Towerhouse	Fife
Loudoun Castle	15	Now a themepark	Ayrshire, near Kilmarnock	YES
Luffness Castle	13	Originally a Norman fortress, now a hotel	East Lothian	YES

Name	Century	Remarks	Area	Site
MacLellan's Castle	16	Probabbly, the Towerhouse has never been finished	Dumfries
Maol, Caisteal	15	Also look above, Caisteal Maol	Highlands, Isle of Skye
Mauchline Castle	15		Ayrshire
Maybole Castle	17		Ayrshire, near Maybole
Menzies Castle	16		Pertshire, Aberfeldy	YES
Castle of Mey	16	Open 1 day a year	Highlands, near Caithness
Merchiston Castle	15	Now part of a school	Near Edinburgh
Midhope Castle	16		West Lothian
Mingary Castle	14		Highlands, Ardnamurchan
Moniak Castle	17	They make wine here, out of everything except graves!	Highlands, Beaully
Morton Castle	15	Ruin, traces of an earlier castle	Dumfries
Moy Castle	15		Argyll, Mull
Muchalls Castle	17		Grampians, Aberdeenshire
Mugdock Castle	14	Situated in the Mugdock Country Park	Greater Glasgow
Myres Castle	16	Now a hotel	Fife

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