The remains of Aros Castle are fragmentary, with few surviving features of any great interest. The main thing it has going for it is its splendid position.
Like most of the other castles around these parts, Aros makes use of a layer of volcanic basalt, with its characteristic flat top and vertical sides, which provided the builders with a strong defensive site before they ever set one stone atop another. It would appear that Aros was another hall-house, probably not dissimilar to Ardtornish on the other side of the Sound.
The other sides of the site being defended by cliffs, the approach was necessarily from this side, which was supposedly defended with a fosse and drawbridge. If there was a drawbridge, I am not sure where it was. Another description I have, states that 'The principal approach appears to have been by way of a causeway which crossed the N section of the ditch, thence passing beneath the SW corner of the hall-house to enter a gateway in the W wall of the bailey.'
The ruined building in the foreground, which may have been a cottage or a smithy, is obviously of great age, but is probably not of the same period as the castle.
Ardtornish Castle is a tourist attraction, one of the Castles in Lochaline, United Kingdom. It is located: 354 km from Glasgow, 520 km from Edinburgh, 650 km from Belfast. Read further
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