List of castles in Scotland

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Further information:
Scottish castles

Craigievar Castle, Aberdeenshire

This is a list of

country houses
. Over the approximately 900 years that castles were built, they took on a great many forms.

In

motte and bailey castles were replaced with the first stone-built castles from around 1200.[2][3]

By the late 14th century, the large curtain-walled castles had begun to give way to more modest tower houses – vertical dwellings with less formidable defences. This type of vertical house continued to be popular with Scotland's landowning class through to the late 17th century, when classical architecture made its first appearance in the country. Meanwhile, the advance of artillery pressed military engineers to devise stronger fortifications for important royal strongholds.

Tower houses and castles were often given

Scottish Baronial style
of the 19th century.

There have been well over two thousand castles in Scotland, although many are known only through historical records. They are found in all parts of the country although tower houses and peel towers are concentrated along the border with England, while the best examples of larger Renaissance-era tower houses are clustered in the north-east. There is some discussion about whether Scottish castles can be considered to be "true" castles, although this discussion is mainly focused around opinions held by some scholars as per the exact scope of the word castle.

Lists by council area

See the individual council area lists for details of castles in each area:

Fictional castles

See also

Notes

  1. ISBN 0-09-473430-5
    p.17
  2. ISBN 0-09-473430-5
    p.20
  3. ^ MacGibbon, David; Ross, Thomas (1887) The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland from the twelfth to the eighteenth century 5 vols.

References

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