Duncraig Castle
Duncraig Castle is a mansion in Lochalsh, in the west of the Scottish Highlands. A category-C listed building, it is situated in the Highland council area, east of the village of Plockton on the south shore of Loch Carron.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Richard Szwejkowski, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Castle
- Description: castle in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Duncraig”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Duncraig railway station and Plockton Church, Innes Street, Plockton.
Duncraig railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sexy Simon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Duncraig railway station is a remote railway station by the shore of Loch Carron on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, originally serving Duncraig Castle, a mansion near Plockton, in the Highland council area of northern Scotland.
Plockton railway station
Railway station
Photo: Jim Barton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Plockton railway station is a railway station on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, serving the village of Plockton in the Highlands, north-west Scotland. The station is 58 miles 22 chains from Dingwall, between Duncraig and Duirinish.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Plockton and Duirinish.
Plockton
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Plockton is a village on the west coast of Ross and Cromarty in the Scottish Highlands, with a population of 468 in 2020. In Scots slang a "plook" is a pimple, and The Plock is a small headland sheltering the harbour from the westerly weather.
Duirinish
Hamlet
Photo: Bert Kaufmann, CC BY 2.0.
Duirinish is a hamlet in Lochalsh near Plockton in Ross-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. The hamlet is largely formed around the Allt Dhiuirnis river, which flows westward into the Inner Sound. Duirinish is situated 2 miles southwest of Duncraig Castle.
Barleyport
Hamlet
Photo: Chris MacKenzie, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Port an Eòrna is the Scottish Gaelic name for the small settlement of Barleyport, situated almost midway between Plockton and the Kyle of Lochalsh, in Ross-shire, Scotland, in the Western Highlands. Barleyport is situated 2½ miles west of Duncraig Castle.
Duncraig Castle
- Categories: building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.33802° or 57° 20′ 17″ northLongitude
-5.6336° or 5° 38′ 1″ westElevation
276 feet (84 metres)Levels
2Open location code
9C9P89Q8+6HOpenStreetMap ID
way 266638801OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=castle
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In Other Languages
From German to Scottish Gaelic—“Duncraig Castle” goes by many names.
- German: “Duncraig Castle”
- Irish: “Caisteal Dhùn na Creige”
- Irish: “Dún Creige”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Caisteal Dhùn na Creige”
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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 “Duncraig Castle”. Photo: Richard Szwejkowski, CC BY-SA 2.0.