Barr Castle, Lochwinnoch

Name: Barr Castle
Address: Lochwinnoch, United Kingdom

#1 among attractions in Lochwinnoch

Top attraction, Forts and castles

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Barr Castle is a late medieval tower house. It can be seen today as a ruin on a low ridge to the south of the village of Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire, Scotland. ()

Alternative names: Built: XVI centuryCoordinates: 55°47'18"N, 4°38'17"W

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Lochwinnoch United Kingdom

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

Nearby attractions include: Castle Semple, Kilbirnie Auld Kirk, Beith Parish Churches, Glengarnock Castle.

2.2 miNE
Forts and castles
Castle Semple
58 min walk • Castle Semple is a former mansion house located in Renfrewshire, Scotland. It is situated near the eastern end of Castle Semple Loch, within Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park.
3.4 miSW
Church
Kilbirnie Auld Kirk, Kilbirnie
88 min walk • Kilbirnie Auld Kirk is a Church of Scotland congregation on Dalry Road, Kilbirnie, North Ayrshire, Scotland. Although the building dates back to the 15th century, the present congregation was formed in 1978 by the amalgamation of the Glengarnock Parish Church and the Barony Church.
2.7 miS
Church
Beith Parish Churches, Beith
69 min walk • Beith Parish Church was formed from the Union of Beith High Church and Beith Trinity Church. Services are held in the former High Church building in Kirk Road The Beith High Church was built in 1807 and extended in 1885. Gothic T-plan kirk dominated by the tall five-stage tower. Stained glass by Gordon Webster.
2.3 miW
Forts and castles
Glengarnock Castle, Kilbirnie
59 min walk • Glengarnock Castle is one of the ancient ruined fortifications of Ayrshire. Its keep is located on a remote rocky promontory overlooking the River Garnock about 2 miles north of the town of Kilbirnie in North Ayrshire, Scotland.
3.1 miSW
Church
St Brigid's Church, Kilbirnie
80 min walk • St Brigid's is the church for the Roman Catholic Parish of Kilbirnie, in the Diocese of Galloway in North Ayrshire, Scotland.
3.2 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Kilbirnie Loch, Kilbirnie
81 min walk • Kilbirnie Loch, is a freshwater Loch situated in the floodplain between Kilbirnie, Glengarnock and Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland. It runs south-west to north-east for almost 2 km, is about 0.5 km wide for the most part and has an area of roughly 3 km². It has a general depth of around 5.2 metres to a maximum of around 11 metres.
0.8 miE
55°47'19"N • 4°37'8"W
RSPB Lochwinnoch Nature Reserve, Lochwinnoch
20 min walk • Nature and wildlife, Park
3.7 miS
Archaeological site
The Lands of Roughwood
94 min walk • Roughwood once Ruchwood is a farm, originally a estate, possessing at one time a small tower castle. Roughwood is situated near to the town of Beith in North Ayrshire, Scotland; the lands lay within the old Lordship of Giffen.
1 miNE
Forts and castles, Vernacular architecture
Belltrees Peel, Lochwinnoch
26 min walk • Belltrees Peel is a medieval tower situated on a peninsula in Castle Semple Loch in Renfrewshire, Scotland, on which was once an island.
1.6 miW
Forts and castles
Barony of Ladyland
40 min walk • The Barony of Ladyland was in the old feudal Baillerie of Cunninghame, near Kilbirnie in what is now North Ayrshire, Scotland.
3.3 miE
Forts and castles
Auchenbathie Tower
84 min walk • Auchenbathie, Auchinbathie Tower or rarely Barcraigs Tower is a ruined fortification, a tower house, once held by the Wallace Clan of Elderslie, situated in Renfrewshire, Parish of Lochwinnoch, Scotland.