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Following the Scottish Government's announcement that restrictions are expected to relax, some of our staffed sites will reopen on Friday 30 April. Tickets available now.

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Prices and opening times

This site is closed until Spring 2021. We’re working hard to gradually reopen the places you love while making sure the experience is safe for everyone. Find out more about our reopening plans.

Admission

Lochranza Castle is free to visit.

Open

1 April to 30 September:
Daily, 9.30am to 5.30pm
Last entry 5pm

Closed

1 October to 31 March

Historic Scotland

Opening times

This site is closed until Spring 2021.

We’re working hard to gradually reopen the places you love while making sure the experience is safe for everyone.

Find out more about our reopening plans.

Facilities

The square, well preserved Skipness Castle ruin on a grassy hill

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Skipness Castle and Chapel
Four medium sized standing stones are set in a row next to a small road. The sea can be seen in the distance.

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Auchagallon Cairn
A large boulder and several low standing stones in a field.

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Moss Farm Road Stone Circle
Three large standing stones in a marshy landscape

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Machrie Moor Standing Stones
A few stones that belonged to a drystone building on a grassy landscape with hills in the distance

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Kilpatrick Dun
A hilly clearing in a forest with a few remains of stone walls.

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Carn Ban
A grass-covered burial cairn with dents that look like steps leading up to its top on a field close to the sea

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Torr a'Chaisteal Dun
The roofless ruin of St Blane

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St Blane's Church
The square, well preserved Skipness Castle ruin on a grassy hill

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Skipness Castle and Chapel
A general view of the circular curtain wall and moat at Rothesay Castle.

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Rothesay Castle
Distant view of Castle Sween with Loch Sween and the hills in the background

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Castle Sween
Carnasserie Castle seen from a distance, surrounded by an autumn landscape.

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Carnasserie Castle
A photograph of a large house with a square tower, flying a Saltire flag.

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Newark Castle
Dundonald Castle at sunset

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Dundonald Castle
The very picturesque Kilchurn Castle viewed from Loch Awe, with sun-touched hills just behind it.

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Kilchurn Castle
A general view of Dunstaffnage Castle.

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Dunstaffnage Castle and Chapel

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