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Welcome to the Scottish Castles Association website
The stone walls of Scotland's ancient castles, towers and fortified houses have witnessed, first-hand, the fascinating and tumultuous history of the Scottish nation. The Scottish Castles Association aims to help facilitate the protection, conservation or restoration of these unique properties for future generations to study, research and appreciate.
Dornoch Castle hotel up for sale for £2.5m
Dornoch Castle hotel in Sutherland, 40 minutes north of Inverness, is up for sale for £2.5m as owners Colin and Roselyn Thompson have decided to concentrate on their other business interests.
New Gates for Duart Castle
Members of Clan McLean are to join together to give their chief new gates for his castle to replace the temporary ones used for the last 100 years.
Scotland's largest map at Black Barony Castle
A campaign has been launched to save the world's largest 'map' of Scotland situated in the grounds of Black Barony Castle.
Scotland's best (and least) loved castles announced
The top 10 tourism attractions for Scotland have just been announced. The winner was the National Museum of Scotland with 1,494,728 visitors and second was Edinburgh Castle with 1,302,825.
Ardrossan Castle to be turned into a tourist attraction!
Plans to turn Ardrossan Castle into a tourist attraction 'to draw people into the town' emerged this week.
Building & Repairing Dry Stone Walls Courses
Invitation to the Scottish Traditional Skills Training Centre's forthcoming courses "Building and Repairing Dry Stone Walls", at both Foundation and Advanced Levels, which is being held on dates in May 2012 (17-18th and 24-25th) at the National Trust for Scotland's Fyvie Castle, Aberdeenshire.
SCA French Visit - 9th-12th October 2012
There will be a 4 day trip to France for members to view the castles of the French Riviera based at Menton, Alpes-Maritimes. - Fully Booked.
Scottish Castle Association News
Check this section, which is regularly updated, for any snippets of news covering interesting topics which, we feel, will be of interest to our members, castle enthusiasts and general history buffs.
Members' Request Announcement
If you are a member, and don't yet have your account login details, please let us know via our online contact page. We are trying to gather as many members' email addresses as possible in order to get in touch with you easily. If you do not have an email address, please still request login details.
Scottish Castles Association Future Events
We have a number of exciting events planned, or are in the process of organising. Our events usually consist of castle visit weekends where we gain access to some wonderful historic properties not normally open to the public. We also have other events such as castle picnic days.
Scottish Castle Postcard Collection - Now Live!
Members can now login in to view SCA member Brian McGarrigle's wonderful extensive collection of old postcards. Each postcard shows a picture of a Scottish Castle as it looked around the year 1900. Brian's been collecting castle postcards for over, let's just say, many years. Over 1300 images.
SCA Castle Photo Archive (members only)
One of the main benefits of joining the SCA is being given special access to our exclusive Castle Image Collection on this website, showing photographs of nearly all historical Scottish buildings which have been accumulated by SCA member John Pringle. A must for castle lovers and historians!
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TOUR PHOTO ALBUM
CASTLE DRAWINGS
OLD CASTLE POSTCARDSView our extensive collection of castle postcards (circa 1900).
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