Finlarig Castle

Stirling, United Kingdom

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Finlarig Castle is an early 17th-century L-plan tower-house standing on a peninsula between the River Lochay and Loch Tay, just over half a mile north of Killin in Stirling, Scotland. Built in 1629 by 'Black' Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy, it was originally protected by an outer barmekin, now heavily ruinous. One of many strongholds erected by the Campbells of Breadalbane across Argyll and Perthshire, the castle was visited by Rob Roy MacGregor in 1713. Local tradition associates a stone-lined pit near the castle's north wall with executions of noble prisoners, while commoners were said to have been hanged on a nearby oak tree. Nearby stand the fragmentary remains of the Breadalbane Mausoleum, a brick-built mock-Tudor chapel erected in 1829 over an earlier burial place founded in 1523 by Sir Colin Campbell; the structure has largely collapsed from years of neglect. The castle is now a scheduled monument.

Type: castle
Heritage: scheduled monument
Place: Stirling, United Kingdom

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