skip to main content
Menu
  • Blog
    • Art & design
    • Castles
    • Cycling
    • Edinburgh
    • Edinburgh Festival
    • Food & drink
    • General
    • History
    • Music
    • Sport
    • Walking
    • Whisky
    • Wildlife
  • Castles
    • Glossary
    • Mottes
    • Stay in a castle
    • Castle blog posts
    • Alphabetical list of castles
    • Castles divided by county
    • Photos of castles
    • Castles we've visited
  • History
    • Castles
    • Ancient history
      • barrows
      • brochs
      • cairns
      • caves
      • chambered cairns
      • cists
      • crannogs
      • cursus monuments
      • forts
      • henges
      • rock art
      • sacred sites
      • souterrains
      • standing stones
      • stone circles
    • Pictish history
      • Pictish stones
      • Pictish sites
      • Pictish placenames
    • Clans
      • Surnames
      • Trace your ancestors
      • Tartan
    • Trace your ancestors
  • Culture
    • Music
      • Bands & musicians
      • Music links
    • Film
    • Television
    • Placenames
      • Pictish placenames
  • Eat
  • Drink
    • Scottish beer
    • Scottish gin
    • Scottish vodka
  • Stay
  • Travel guide
    • City guides
    • Car hire
    • Airports
  • Walking
    • Munros
    • West Highland Way
  • Photos
    • ancient sites
      • Dark Age sites
      • megalithic sites
      • other carved stones
      • Pictish sites
      • Roman sites
    • buildings
    • miscellaneous
    • places in Scotland
  • Offers
  • Home
  • history
  • castles

Rothesay Castle

Where is Rothesay Castle?

Rothesay Castle is in the parish of Rothesay and the county of Bute.

Grid reference: NS 08781 64585

Lat / long: 55.8364868442691, -5.05512540376931

Bing Maps | Google Maps | Historic maps (NLS) | OpenStreetMap | Ordnance Survey | PastMap | Streetmap | Wikimapia

OS Map for Rothesay Castle

Cowal West & Isle of Bute (Rothesay)
OS Explorer map 362


Directions to Rothesay Castle

Enter a starting point

Weather at Rothesay Castle

3°C
max 3°C / min 2°C
8km/h SE
1020mb
87%
100%
08:40 16:18

Light rain
Weather observed at Rothesay at 20:15

References (websites)

Listed Building record
Canmore
Historic Environment Scotland
Wikipedia
  • 300x250 Free Genealogy Search blue

Castles near Rothesay Castle

Ascog House

2.3km away

Kames Castle

3.8km away

Wester Kames Castle

4.3km away

Toward Castle

4.5km away

Kilmory Castle

5.0km away

Knockamillie Castle

9.1km away

Knock Castle

10.6km away

Kelspoke Castle

10.6km away

Skelmorlie Castle

10.8km away
more castles....

Ancient sites near Rothesay Castle

Auld Hill fort

17.9km away

Kempock Stone standing stone

20.2km away

Auchrannie souterrain

29.7km away

Langbank West crannog

30.6km away

Carman fort

32.0km away

Dumbarton Rock fort

32.7km away

Langbank East crannog

32.8km away

Dumbuck crannog

34.0km away

Longhaugh Point standing stone

34.9km away
more ancient sites....

Pictish stones near Rothesay Castle

Dunadd Class I rock carving

38.3km away

Old Kilmadock 2 Class I symbol stone

72.6km away

Old Kilmadock 1 Class II symbol stone

72.6km away

Hawkhill Class III cross-slab

86.1km away

Blackford Class I symbol stone

95.3km away

Fowlis Wester Class II cross-slab

103.1km away

Fowlis Wester Church Class III cross-slab

103.2km away

Tullibole Class III cross slab

103.3km away

Dupplin Cross Class III cross

110.8km away
more Pictish stones....
  • Sixt Car Rental

Pictish sites near Rothesay Castle

Whitecleugh silver chain

84.5km away

Todholes (possible) silver chain

96.5km away

Borland silver chain

98.6km away

Norrie's Law hoard

139.2km away

Whitlaw silver chain

141.4km away

Haddington silver chain

142.8km away

Traprain Law silver chain

149.7km away

Hoardweel silver chain

169.6km away

Torvean silver chain

187.7km away
more Pictish sites....

Accommodation near Rothesay Castle

Ascog House
self-cateringAscog
2.3km away
Colintraive Hotel
hotelColintraive
10.4km away
Brisbane House Hotel
hotelLargs
12.5km away
The Kames Hotel
hotelTighnabruaich
13.3km away
Abbots Brae Hotel
hotelDunoon
13.6km away
Tighnabruaich Hotel
hotelTighnabruaich
13.6km away
Royal An Lochan Hotel
hotel, restaurant, barTighnabruaich
13.7km away
Tregortha Guest House
hotelTighnabruaich
13.8km away
Esplanade Hotel
hotelDunoon
14.5km away
Selborne Hotel
hotelDunoon
14.5km away

Accommodation search

(leave blank to view all)
Accommodation type
bed and breakfasts
campsites
castles
holiday parks
hostels
hotels
self-catering apartments
self-catering cottages
self-catering lodges
spas
more accommodation....

Cafés, restaurants & bars near Rothesay Castle

Royal An Lochan Hotel
hotel, restaurant, barTighnabruaich
13.7km away
Best Western Argyll Hotel
hotel, restaurantDunoon
14.9km away
Premier Inn Greenock
hotel, restaurantGreenock
23.6km away
Ardencaple Hotel
hotel, restaurant, barRhu
26.8km away
Ardardan Tearoom
caféCardross
27.9km away
Bowfield Hotel & Country Club
hotel, restaurant, barHowwood
30.7km away
Best Western Gleddoch House Hotel & Leisure Club
hotel, restaurant, barLangbank
30.7km away
Allt-Na-Craig House
hotel, restaurantArdrishaig
31.2km away
Premier Inn Dumbarton / Loch Lomond
hotel, restaurant, barDumbarton
33.7km away
Lynnhurst Hotel
hotel, restaurant, barJohnstone
34.0km away
more food.... / more drink....

Related pages

Two lesser-visited castles in Perthshire
Two lesser-visited castles in Perthshire
Jousting at Linlithgow Palace and three castles in Edinburgh
Jousting at Linlithgow Palace and three castles in Edinburgh
A grey walk in North Berwick
A grey walk in North Berwick
A quick tour of Perthshire
A quick tour of Perthshire
Wet and windswept antiquities in Berwickshire
Wet and windswept antiquities in Berwickshire
Cairns Castle and Harperrig Reservoir
Cairns Castle and Harperrig Reservoir
Published on the 19th of October 2011 at 12:54 am. Updated on the 22nd of July 2016 at 10:17 pm.

Leave a comment

back to the top of the page

Connect with us

Like us on Facebook

Receive our newsletter

Follow us on Twitter

Tweets by Stravaig_Aboot

Quick links

Stay in a Scottish castle
Edinburgh Festival accommodation
Hotels in Scotland
Car hire in Scotland
Places to eat and drink in Scotland
Castles in Scotland
Trace your Scottish ancestors
Scottish clans
Standing stones in Scotland
The Picts
Pictish symbol stones
Pictish placenames
Scottish bands and musicians
Scottish films
Scottish TV shows
West Highland Way

About

Andy Sweet above Fast Castle

Stravaiging around Scotland is written, photographed and researched by Andy Sweet.
read more....

Cookies

To make this site work properly we use cookies to store information on your computer. Click here to read more.
© 2003 - 2021 Andy Sweet / Stravaiging around Scotland. Powered by WordPress. Hosted by Tsohost.