Glencairn House, on the town’s High Street, was built in 1623 for the 7th Earl of Glencairn and has a significant history as a townhouse for powerful Scottish families in the Royal Burgh.

The castle, located on the outskirts of Dumbarton and just off the A82, is a perfect location for getting to both Glasgow and scenic Loch Lomond – both of which you can reach by car in under ...

Dumbarton Castle, which once sheltered Mary, Queen of Scots before she fled to France, will reopen today, Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has announced. Access restrictions were put in place ...

Dumbarton Castle. Picture: Historic Environment Scotland Other staff raised concerns about the depth of progress on any remedial works, due to a shortage of finances. HES refuted the allegations ...

Mr McCormick told the Lennox Herald: “I consider Dumbarton Castle to be one of Scotland’s principal national castles along with Edinburgh and Stirling. “But it is a castle for which Historic ...

Nobody. Dumbarton is a place, not a person. The town of Newark had been named in the 1870s by Scottish developer J. Barr Robertson after a castle in Port Glasgow, on the mouth of Scotland’s ...

THE ending could have been so different. The man who headed the greatest military superpower of his age was forced into ignominious exile on the remote island of St Helena after his defeat at the ...

A GROUP of history enthusiasts laid siege to the Scottish Parliament last week in a campaign to really put Dumbarton Castle on the map. The Strathleven Artizans are demanding that the “world ...

Dumbarton Castle was built on top of volcanic rock beside the sea. In the 1200s it protected Scotland from Vikings. During World War 2 it became a lookout tower and was fitted with anti-aircraft guns.

David Mitchell, Historic Scotland's Director of Conservation ... How the importance of Dumbarton Castle has been recorded for 1,500 years. How it was attacked by the Vikings.

See the best of the Scottish Highlands from our cruise excursion. We tour Dumbarton Castle, Loch Lomond, Argyll Forest, and Inveraray before having a meal in town and then catching an epic sunset ...