Rosneath Castle
Castle (Medieval)
Site Name Rosneath Castle
Classification Castle (Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Rosneath
Canmore ID 41432
Site Number NS28SE 11
NGR NS 27078 82238
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/41432
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Rosneath
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Dumbarton
- Former County Dunbartonshire
NS28SE 11 2707 8223.
(NS 2707 8223) Rosneath Castle (NR) (Site of)
There is reason to believe that the castle of Rosneath existed as a royal castle before the end of the 12th century. It is said to have been destroyed by Wallace.
Orig Paroch Scot 1850
Rosneath Castle is a small, castellated building situated on the point south of Camsail Bay. The Duke of Argyll enlarged it about 1630.
New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845
The site how lies within a caravan site. No traces of the building exist.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 11 January 1963
Field Visit (August 1977)
Rosneath Castle NS 270 822 NS28SE 11
This castle is said to have been in existence in the 12th century and to have been destroyed at the end of the 13th century. A building, probably of 17th-century and later date, which subsequently occupied the site, was burnt down in 1802.
RCAHMS 1978, visited August 1977
(NSA, viii, Dunbarton,117; OPS 1851-5, i, 29; Lindsay and Cosh 1973, 252)
