Although things might be a little different on your visit, you can still enjoy exploring Crookston Castle.
Find out more about this historic place below.
Journey inside
The castle might have originated as one of a string of ringworks created by Walter fitzAlan in the mid-1100s. The ruin we see today was built in the early 1400s, likely by Sir Alexander Stewart, lord of Crookston. Through marriage, the Stewarts became earls of Lennox, and they became part of an uprising against James IV in 1489.
The castle’s north-eastern tower was used as an aircraft watch tower during the Clydeside blitz during World War II.
The castle’s arrangement is near-unique in Scotland. Its central tower is surrounded by four square corner towers. It was carefully planned: the public rooms were located in the central block, while the corner towers contained accommodation expected in a conventional tower house, including stores, a kitchen, a prison, bed-chambers and servants’ quarters.