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″ northLongitude
-3.68306° or 3° 40′ 59″ westOpen location code
9C9RH8F8+PQOpenStreetMap ID
way 119516718OpenStreetMap feature
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historic=castleWikidata 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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