Dalcross Castle

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Forts and castles, Vernacular architecture

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Dalcross Castle is a restored 17th century tower house, about 1+1⁄2 miles southwest of Croy, Highland, Scotland, and about 7 miles northeast of Inverness. The castle stands on a ridge. ()

Coordinates: 57°30'30"N, 4°2'25"W

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

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

5.3 miN
Historical place, Forts and castles
Fort George, Ardersier
136 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...
4.4 miE
Macbeth-linked 14th-century castle
Cawdor Castle, Nairn
111 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.
2.7 miSW
Well-preserved Bronze Age burial site
Clava Cairns, Culloden
70 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.
6 miNW
Church
Fortrose Cathedral, Fortrose and Rosemarkie
154 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.
2.9 miSW
57°28'38"N • 4°5'34"W
Culloden Battlefield, Culloden
75 min walk • Battlefield, Historical place, Visitor center
2.3 miE
Forts and castles
Kilravock Castle
59 min walk • 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.
2.3 miS
Bridge
Culloden Viaduct, Culloden
58 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.
2 miE
Archaeological site
Cawdor
50 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.
3.9 miW
Church
Barn Church, Inverness
101 min walk • The Barn Church is a parish church of the Church of Scotland at Culloden, in the Presbytery of Inverness. Although the congregation is relatively young, and only received full status as a parish church in its own right in the late 1980s, the building is of considerable historical interest.
2.8 miNW
Golf, Outdoor activities, Forts and castles
Castle Stuart, Culloden
72 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.
6.1 miNW
Forts and castles
Chanonry of Ross, Fortrose and Rosemarkie
156 min walk • Castle Chanonry of Ross, also known as Seaforth Castle, was located in the town of Fortrose, to the north-east of Inverness, on the peninsula known as the Black Isle, Highland, Scotland. Nothing now remains of the castle.