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
Neidpath Castle	14		Scottish Borders
Newark Castle	12e	Also called Castle of St Monance	Fife	YES
Newark Castle	15e	Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, PA14 5NH, open to public	Port Glasgow	YES
Newark Castle		Newark, AYR, Ayrshire, KA7 4ED, private property and closed to the public	Ayrshire
Newbattle Castle	16		Near Dalkeith
Newmilns Tower	16		Ayrshire

Name	Century	Remarks	Area	Site
Orchardton Tower	15		Dumfries
Ormacleit Castle	18	Closed to the public	Isle of South Uist

Name	Century	Remarks	Area	Site
Park, Castle of	16	Now a hotel	Highlands, Banff	YES
Park Castle			Galloway, near Stranraer
Peel Ring of Lumphanan	12	Almost nothing left	Grampians, Aberdeenshire
Penkill Castle	15		Ayrshire, near Girvan
Pitfichie Castle	16	Now a self-catering hotel	Grampians, Aberdeenshire
Pitsligo Castle	15	Ruin	Near Fraserburgh
Pitreavie Castle	17	Headquarters of the navy for a long time in de 20th century	Fife, near Dunfermline
Plane Tower	15	Also called Cock-a-Bendy Castle or Plean Castle	Argyll, near Stirling
Portencross Castle	15	Once a resting place for Robert the Bruce	Ayrshire

Name	Century	Remarks	Area	Site
Rait Castle	13	ruin	Highlands, Inverness-shire
Ravenscraig Castle	15		Fife
Ravenstone Castle	16	There are plans to restaurate it...	Galloway, near Wigtown
Red Castle	13	ruin	near Montrose
Rothes Castle	13		Highlands, near Elgin
Rothesay Castle	12		Argyll, Butte
Rosyth Castle	13		Fife, near Dunfermline
Rowallan Castle	16		Ayrshire, near Kilmarnock
Roxburgh Castle	12		Scottish Borders, Kelso
Rumgally House	14	A hotel now	Fife, near St. Andrews

Name	Century	Remarks	Area	Site
Saddell Castle	16	Self-catering hotel	East Kintyre
St. Andrews Castle	12	ruin	Fife, St. Andrews
Saltcoats Castle	16	ruin	Lothians
Sanquhar Castle	13	ruin	Dumfries
Scotstarvit Tower	15	Tower house	Fife
Sinclair Castle	15	Next to Girnicoe Castle	Highlands
Skelbo Castle	14	ruin	Highlands
Skibo Castle	12	Madonna married her in 2000	Highlands, Inverness-shire	Yes
Skipness Castle	13	Fortress against the Vikings	Argyll
Slains Castle	16	The place wehere Bram Stoker devised the story of Dracula; near it is an older castle	Grampians, Aberdeenshire
Smailholm Tower	16		Scottish Borders, Kelso
Sorbie Tower	17		Galloway
Sorn Castle	14		Ayrshire, near Mauchline
Spynie Palace	13	The castle was build as a palce for a bishop; the accompanying cathedral has vanished	Grampian
Stalker Castle	16	The castle has been renovated	Argyll
Stirling Castle	12	This castle played an important role in Scottish history and in the struggle against the English	Argyll, Stirling
Strathaven Castle	14	Also called Avondale Castle	Clyde
Strome Castle	15	Ruin	Highlands, Loch Carron
Stuart Castle	17	Now a hotel and Bed & Breakfast	Highlands, Inverness-shire
Sundrum Castle	14	Now a hotel	Ayrshire, near Ayr	Yes
Sween Castle	12		Argyll, Kintyre

Name	Century	Remarks	Area	Site
Tantallon Castle	14		Lothians
Tarbert Castle	13	Here (they say) the Vikings (Magnus Barefoot) landed	Argyll, Tarbert
Taymouth Castle	19	Victorian castle, build next to the 16th century Balloch Castle	Kenmore, Perthshire	Yes
Terringzean Castle	15	Ruin	Ayrshire, near Cumnock
Thirlestane Castle	16	In th 13th century the first fortress was build here	Scottish Borders
Thomaston Castle	13	Tower house	Ayrshire, near Maybole
Threave Castle	14	An earlier castle was destroyed by Robert the Bruce in 1308	Galloway
Tioram Castle	13	Beautiful ruin on a cliff	Highlands, Inverness-shire	Yes
Tolquhoun Castle	15	The greater part has been build in later times	Grampians, Aberdeenshire
Torosay Castle	19	Victorian country house	Argyle, Isle of Mull
Torrisdale Castle	19	Selfcatering cottages present	Argyll, Mull of Kintyre	Yes
Toward Castle	15	Ruin	Argyll
Traquair House	12	Famous by the many visits of the royal family	Near Peebles	Yes
Tullibole Castle	17	This small castle is still inhabited	Pertshire
Tulloch Castle	12	A hotel now	Highlands, near Dingwall	Yes
Turnberry Castle	12	Nothing left, only a lighthouse is standing there now	Ayrshire

Name	Century	Remarks	Area	Site
Urquhart Castle	13	A very nice ruin on a beautiful spot; probably there were fortresses here since 2.000 BC.	Highlands, Loch Ness
Venlaw Castle	18	Large country house	near Peebles
Wedderburn Castle	14		East Lothian	Yes
(Old) Wick Castle	12	Ruin, one of the oldest fortresses whne the Normans ruled this area from the Orkney islands	Highland, Wick

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