Kinnell Castle was the seat of the barony of Kinnell, an early barony in Angus, but nothing of it now remains and its exact location has been lost.

The castle is thought to have stood to the south-west of the church at Kinnell, in what would have been a good defensive position at the confluence of the Whauch Burn with the Lunan Water on the north bank of the latter. In some sources Kinnell Castle seems to have been conflated with the Castle of Whitehills which stood on the south bank of the Lunan Water, but both are marked on Pont’s late 16th century map.

I have placed the site of Kinnell Castle to the south-west of the church pending further research. The church is built on high ground, and there is high ground to the east at Hatton Mill (derived from Haltoun of Hall-toun, perhaps indicative of a property associated with a hall or castle) and to the west at Kinnell’s Mill where there is a Gallows Law.