Darnaway Castle

Darnaway Castle, also known as Tarnaway Castle, is located in Darnaway Forest, 3 miles southwest of Forres in Moray, Scotland. This was Comyn land, given to Thomas Randolph along with the Earldom of Moray by King Robert I.

Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Rodney’s Stone and Dyke Parish Church.

Rodney’s Stone

Photo: Calgacus, Public domain.

Rodney's Stone is a two-metre high Pictish cross slab now located close on the approach way to Brodie Castle, near Forres, Moray, Scotland. It was originally found nearby in the grounds of the old church of Dyke and Moy. Rodney’s Stone is situated 1½ miles northwest of Darnaway Castle.

Dyke Parish Church

Church

Photo: Ann Harrison, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Dyke Parish Church is a Georgian church in Dyke, a village in Moray. In active use by the Church of Scotland since it was built in 1781, it stands on the site of a mediaeval church, and incorporates an older mausoleum, which is now the church hall and vestry. Dyke Parish Church is situated 2 miles north of Darnaway Castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dyke and Kintessack.

Dyke

Village

Photo: Ann Harrison, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Dyke is a small village situated in the north of Scotland on the Moray coast, approximately 4 miles west of Forres. The origin of the name of the parish of Dyke is supposed to be the Gaelic word dìg, signifying a water drain or ditch. Dyke is situated 2 miles north of Darnaway Castle.

Kintessack

Village

Kintessack is a small village in Moray, Scotland 3 miles north-west of Forres. It is located in the parish of Dyke and Moy,… Kintessack is situated 3 miles north of Darnaway Castle.

Forres

Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Forres is a town in Moray in northeast Scotland, with a population of 9090 in 2020. By the second century AD it was sufficiently famous to be mapped as Οὐάραρ εἴσχυσις — "Varar Estuary" — by Claudius Ptolemy of Alexandria.

Darnaway Castle

Type: Castle
Description: castle in Moray, Scotland, UK
Categories: building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Moray, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

57.57432° or 57° 34′ 28″ north

Longitude

-3.68306° or 3° 40′ 59″ west

Open location code

9C9RH8F8+PQ

OpenStreetMap ID

way 119516718

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=castle

Wikidata ID

Q5224104

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Turkish—“Darnaway Castle” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Darnaway Castle”
French: “château de Darnaway”
French: “Château de Darnaway”
German: “Darnaway Castle”
Japanese: “ダーナウェイ城”
Portuguese: “Castelo Darnaway”
Swedish: “Darnaway Castle”
Turkish: “Darnaway Kalesi”

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