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Latitude: 56.5333 / 56°31'59"N
Longitude: -5.965 / 5°57'54"W
OS Eastings: 156293
OS Northings: 744965
OS Grid: NM562449
Mapcode National: GBR CCNG.2HM
Mapcode Global: WGZDM.B1RT
Entry Name: Aros Castle,Mull
Scheduled Date: 26 March 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5064
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Secular: bailey
Location: Kilninian and Kilmore
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Oban South and the Isles
Traditional County: Argyllshire
The monument consists of a 13th-century hall-house and bailey set on a rocky promontory overlooking from the north the estuary of the Aros. There are traces of other, rectangular buildings, possibly of a later date, within the bailey and on the land lying beyond its ditch and counterscarp bank to the west. A small stone-built boat landing lies to the E of the bailey.
The scheduled area includes all the forementioned features, and all the ground bounded by the coastal trackway on the S and E, and by fence lines on the N and W, together with an area of foreshore lying E of the coastal trackway, all as shown in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because of the evidence that it provides, and has the potential to provide, through excavation, for settlement, domestic and defensive planning, and material culture in the Western Isles from the 13th century (and possibly earlier) until the end of the 17th century.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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