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Kilmaronock Castle
Tower House (15th Century) - (16th Century)
Site Name Kilmaronock Castle
Classification Tower House (15th Century) - (16th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Mains Castle
Canmore ID 43404
Site Number NS48NE 1
NGR NS 45500 87716
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/43404
- Council West Dunbartonshire
- Parish Kilmaronock (Dumbarton)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Dumbarton
- Former County Dunbartonshire
NS48NE 1 45500 87716
(NS 4550 8770) Kilmaronock Castle (NR) (In Ruins)
OS 6" map, Dunbartonshire, 2nd ed., (1922)
The lands of Kilmaronock are mentioned in the 14th and 15th centuries.
J Irving 1879.
The castle belonged to the Earl of Glencairn in 1695.
W Camden 1789.
Kilmaronock Castle is an oblong tower, measuring 10.0 x 12.0m and four or five storeys high. The building is now a ruin but is in a fair state of preservation, and from the construction and design, probably dates from the late 15th - early 16th century.
Visited by OS (R D L) 21 January 1963.
Field Visit (December 1977)
Kilmaronock Castle NS 455 877 NS48NE 1
A tower of 15th- to 16th-century date.
RCAHMS 1978, visited December 1977
(MacGibbon and Ross 1887-92, v, 325-9)
