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Latitude: 55.8966 / 55°53'47"N
Longitude: -4.9568 / 4°57'24"W
OS Eastings: 215224
OS Northings: 671008
OS Grid: NS152710
Mapcode National: GBR GF44.29C
Mapcode Global: WH2ML.T1TW
Entry Name: Knockamillie Castle
Scheduled Date: 10 January 1989
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4617
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Secular: castle
Location: Dunoon and Kilmun
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Dunoon
Traditional County: Argyllshire
The monument includes the remains of Knockamillie Castle, comprising a 40m(E-W) x 16m(N-S) building platform scarped out of the hill slope, and remains of masonry with one wall standing to 8m, enclosed within the area marked in red on the accompanying plan, defined by but not including the boundary wall with Tower Bank on the NE, the road to the Golf Club on the NW, Knockamillie Terrace on the SE, and measuring some 62.5m on the NE, 50m on the NW, 55m on the SW and 45m on the SE.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The site is of national importance because of its archaeological potential for shedding light on the development and character of a lordly residence in the west of Scotland in the 17th century and possibly earlier.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NS 17 SE 1.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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