Scottish Castles Facts

Last castle to be beseiged in Great Britain, Blair Castle, Perthshire (1746).

Most northerly castle in Scotland: Muness Castle, Unst, Shetland.

Most northerly mainland castle: Dunrobin Castle, near Golspie, Highland Region. Dunrobin is the seat of the Earls and Dukes of Sutherland.

Castle most likely to appear on calendars: Eilean Donan Castle, Argyll.

Most westerly castle: Kisimul Castle, Castlebay, Barra, stronghold of the MacNeils.

Largest inhabited castle: Floors Castle, near Kelso, home of the Duke of Roxburgh.

Oldest inhabited castle in Scotland: Traquair House, by Innerleithen, Peebleshire.

Most haunted castle in Scotland (allegedly): Glamis Castle, Tayside. Ghosts include ‘Earl Beardie’, who was said to have played cards with the Devil, a monstrous ‘family secret’ who was rumoured to he kept in a hidden
room, and Janet Douglas, who was burned for witchcraft in the sixteenth century.

Only triangular castle in Great Britain: Caerlaverock Castle, near Dumfries.

Castles which have been royal palaces: Dunfermline Palace, Edinburgh Castle, Falkland Palace, The Palace of Holyroodhouse, Stirling Castle.

Royal Residences in Scotland used by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: Balmoral Castle, Palace of Holryroodhouse.

Scottish Castles As Film Locations

Blackness Castle, Linlithgow, West Lothian
Hamlet (1990), Ivanhoe (BBC TV 1997), Macbeth (1997), The Bruce (1996) Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948)

Ardverikie Castle, Kinlochlaggan, near Aviemore, Highland
Monarch of the Glen (BBC TV I999—2002)

Castle Kennedy, Stanraer, Dumfries and Galloway
The Wicker Man (1973)

Cuizean Castle, Ayrshire
The WickerMan (1973)

Doune Castle, Doune, Stirling
Ivanhoe (BBC TV 1997), Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Duart Castle, Isle of Mull
Entrapment (1999)

Dumbarton Castle, West Dunbartonshire
Gregory's Two Girls (1999)

Dunnottar Castle, near Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire
Hamlet (1990)

Duns Castle, Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
Mrs Brown (1997)

Eilean Donan Castle, Dornie, Kyle of Lochalsh Highland
The World is Not Enough (1999) Highlander (1986), Highlander 3 (1994) Highlander: Endgame (2000), Loch Ness (1996), Entrapment (1999)

Floors Castle, Kelso, Scottish Borders
Greystoke (1984)

Lauriston Castle, Edinburgh
The Prime of MissJean Brodie (1969)

Manderston Castle, Duns, Borders
The House of Mirth (2000)

Morton Castle, Dumfries and Galloway
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1978)

Neidpath Castle, Dumfries and Galloway
The Bruce (1996)

Castle Stalker
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Stirling Castle, Stirling
Kidnapped (1971), Gregory’s Two Girls (1999), Tunes of Glory (1960)

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