Scotland
Scottish Highlands
Argyll & Bute

Skipness Castle

Skipness Castle stands on the east side of the peninsula in , near the village of . Together with the nearby Kilbrannan Chapel it is a scheduled monument.
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Photo: Iwoelbern, Public domain.
  • Opening hours:
    April 1st—September 30th: 9:30 AM—5:30 PM
    October 1st—March 31st: closed
  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: castle in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Skipness and Lochranza.

Village
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tarbert is a village in on the west coast of Scotland. An Tairbeart is a Gaelic term meaning "carry across", indicating an isthmus where small boats could be portaged from one body of water to another.

Village
Photo: Markarianuk, Public domain.
The Isle of Arran is part of in southwest Scotland. It lies in the Firth of Clyde, the broad reach of sea southwest of Glasgow and enclosed by the Ayrshire coast to the east and the Kintyre peninsula to the west. is situated 4½ miles south of Skipness Castle.

Village
Photo: Wendy Kirkwood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small village on the , in the council area of , Scotland. is situated 5 miles south of Skipness Castle.

Skipness Castle

Latitude
55.76798° or 55° 46′ 5″ north
Longitude
-5.33636° or 5° 20′ 11″ west
Open location code
9C7PQM97+5F
Open­Street­Map ID
way 243856789
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
2637706
Wiki­data ID
Q486383
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Skipness Castle” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Սքիփնեսի ամրոց”
  • Danish: “Skipness Castle”
  • Dutch: “Skipness Castle”
  • French: “château de Skipness”
  • French: “Château de Skipness”
  • German: “Skipness Castle”
  • Hebrew: “טירת סקיפנס”
  • Japanese: “スキップネス城”
  • Low German: “Skipness Castle”
  • Portuguese: “Castelo de Skipness”
  • Portuguese: “Castelo skipness”
  • Russian: “Замок Скипнесс”
  • Ukrainian: “Замок Скіпнесс”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Skipness Castle”. Photo: Iwoelbern, Public domain.