Armadale Castle, Armadale

Name: Armadale Castle
Address: Armadale, United Kingdom

#1 among attractions in Armadale

Top attraction, Museum, Gothic Revival architecture

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Armadale Castle is a ruined country house in Armadale, Skye, former home of the MacDonalds. A mansion house was first built here around 1790. In 1815 a Scottish baronial style mock-castle, intended for show rather than defense, designed by James Gillespie Graham, was built next to the house. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 57°4'21"N, 5°53'56"W

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Armadale United Kingdom

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Armadale Castle – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Point of Sleat Lighthouse, Dunscaith Castle, Knock Castle, Mallaig Heritage Centre.

5.8 miSW
Lighthouse
Point of Sleat Lighthouse, Armadale
149 min walk • The Point of Sleat Lighthouse is a lighthouse on Skye in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland. It was built in 1934 at the Point of Sleat at the southern end of the island. In 2003 the tower was dismantled and replaced by a concrete structure with a solar powered light.
5.3 miNW
Forts and castles
Dunscaith Castle, Armadale
135 min walk • Dunscaith Castle also known as Dun Scaich, Dun Sgathaich Castle and Tokavaig, is a ruined castle on the coast of the Isle of Skye, in the north-west of Scotland.
3.2 miNE
Forts and castles, Reportedly haunted
Knock Castle, Isle of Skye
83 min walk • Knock Castle, also known as Caisteal Chamuis is a former stronghold of the MacDonalds. It lies on the east coast of Sleat, approximately five miles north of Armadale on the Isle of Skye, south of Cnoc Uaine, on the eastern side of Knock Bay.
5.3 miSE
57°0'19"N • 5°49'52"W
Mallaig Heritage Centre, Mallaig
135 min walk • Military museum, Natural history museum, History museum
6.3 miNE
57°8'53"N • 5°48'17"W
Talla Duisdale Events, Isle of Skye
161 min walk • City hall
1.4 miNE
Universities and schools
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Armadale
37 min walk • Sabhal Mòr Ostaig is a public higher education college situated in the Sleat peninsula in the south of the Isle of Skye, with an associate campus at Bowmore on the island of Islay, Ionad Chaluim Chille Ìle. Sabhal Mòr is an independent Academic Partner in the federal University of the Highlands and Islands.
6.3 miNE
Distillery, Whiskey distillery
Té Bheag, Isle of Skye
160 min walk • Té Bheag is a blended whisky made by Pràban na Linne Ltd. It is one of Sir Iain Noble's Gaelic Whisky range, which has its headquarters at Eilean Iarmain on the Isle of Skye.
6.6 miNE
Island
Ornsay
170 min walk • Ornsay is a small tidal island to the east of the Sleat peninsula on the Isle of Skye in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.

Armadale Castle, Armadale

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Armadale Castle – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)