Kilravock Castle

#1635 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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Kilravock Castle is located near the village of Croy, between Inverness and Nairn, in the council area of Highland, Scotland. It was begun around 1460 and has been the seat of the Clan Rose since that time. The castle is a composite of a 15th-century tower house and several later additions. The original name for the castle was Cill Rathaig; Scottish Gaelic meaning "church at the small circular fort". ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 57°31'8"N, 3°58'54"W

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

Nearby attractions include: Fort George, Cawdor Castle, Clava Cairns, Fortrose Cathedral.

5.6 miNW
Historical place, Forts and castles
Fort George, Ardersier
142 min walk • Fort George stands as a monumental relic of Scotland's military history, located near the village of Ardersier, northeast of Inverness. This fortress, constructed in the wake of the 1746 Battle of Culloden, was intended to secure the British government's hold over the...
2.1 miE
Macbeth-linked 14th-century castle
Cawdor Castle, Nairn
53 min walk • Cawdor Castle is a castle in the parish of Cawdor in Nairnshire, Scotland. It is built around a 15th-century tower house, with substantial additions in later centuries.
4.7 miSW
Well-preserved Bronze Age burial site
Clava Cairns, Culloden
119 min walk • The Clava cairn is a type of Bronze Age circular chamber tomb cairn, named after the group of three cairns at Balnuaran of Clava, to the east of Inverness in Scotland. There are about 50 cairns of this type in an area round about Inverness.
7 miNW
Church
Fortrose Cathedral, Fortrose and Rosemarkie
178 min walk • Fortrose Cathedral was the episcopal seat of the medieval Scottish diocese of Ross in the Highland region of Scotland. It is probable that the original site of the diocese was at Rosemarkie, but by the 13th century the canons had relocated a short distance to the south-west, to the site known as Fortrose or Chanonry.
5 miSW
57°28'38"N • 4°5'34"W
Culloden Battlefield, Culloden
129 min walk • Battlefield, Historical place, Visitor center
7 miNW
Specialty museum, Art museum, Museum
Groam House Museum, Fortrose and Rosemarkie
179 min walk • Groam House Museum is a museum of Celtic and Pictish Art. Located in the village of Rosemarkie in the Black Isle, Scotland, its collection contains both the Rosemarkie Stone, one of the major surviving examples of Pictish art in stone, and the Rosemarkie sculpture fragments...
7 miNW
Beach, Park, Outdoor activities
Rosemarkie Beach, Fortrose and Rosemarkie
178 min walk • The Rosemarkie Stone or Rosemarkie Cross, a Class II Pictish stone, is one of the major surviving examples of Pictish art in stone.
5.3 miNE
Forts and castles
Rait Castle
136 min walk • Rait Castle is a ruined hall-house castle dating from the thirteenth century, situated just south of Nairn near Inverness, Scotland. It is a scheduled monument.
4.1 miSW
Bridge
Culloden Viaduct, Culloden
106 min walk • The Culloden Viaduct, known also as the Nairn Viaduct, the Culloden Moor Viaduct or the Clava Viaduct is a railway viaduct on the Highland Main Line, to the east of the city of Inverness, in the Highland council area of Scotland.
0.7 miS
Archaeological site
Cawdor
18 min walk • Cawdor, located near the small village of Easter Galcantray, is suspected of being one of the northernmost Roman forts in Great Britain, though this evidence is controversial.
4.7 miW
Golf, Outdoor activities, Forts and castles
Castle Stuart, Culloden
119 min walk • Castle Stuart is a restored tower house on the banks of the Moray Firth, about 6.5 miles northeast of Inverness. The land the castle was built on was granted to James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray by his half-sister, Mary, Queen of Scots, following her return to Scotland in 1561.

Kilravock Castle

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