Scotland · Restored
Edinample Castle
Edinample Castle is a late 16th-century Scottish Z-plan tower house on the southern shore of Loch Earn near Balquhidder. Built around 1584 for the Campbells of Glenorchy, it is a compact three-storey main block with projecting round towers and corbelled turrets and is a Category A listed building.
Its prime
1584
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1584
What Edinample Castle looked like in its prime.
A Z-plan tower house of pale, rendered or light stone standing beside Loch Earn: a rectangular main block (approx. 43 by 27 ft) three storeys high with an attic, corbelled circular stair-turrets at the northern junctures, circular bartizans corbelled out at the north and south corners at second-storey level, and two larger four-storey round towers about 23 ft in diameter at the north‑west and south‑east corners; pitched roofs and a compact roofline, set on a wooded shore with hills behind.
Its story
The story of Edinample Castle.
The Edinample estate was granted to Colin Campbell, 6th Laird of Glenorchy, in 1547 by Henry Stewart, 1st Lord Methven, and his son 'Black Duncan', Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy, probably built the castle in 1584. A Z-plan tower house on the southern shore of Loch Earn, it most likely incorporates an earlier tower in its eastern side, with a three-storey main block, corbelled bartizans and four-storey round towers at opposite corners.
The interior and roofs were remodelled around 1790, and later centuries added a two-storey porch, a corrugated-iron office of 1870 and an early 20th-century five-storey addition that completely enclosed the south-eastern tower. Derelict by the 1960s, the castle was renovated as a private family home by a series of owners between about 1968 and 1998, when all the external additions except the office were demolished. It was designated a Category A listed building in 1971.
Step inside
8 places to explore in 1584.
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Clans who held Edinample Castle.
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Granted to Colin Campbell, 6th Laird of Glenorchy, in 1547; Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy probably built the castle in 1584.
From the archive
Edinample Castle on paper: the measured plan and period views.
The survey plan and photographs below are the ground truth this page's reconstructions are checked against, drawn and photographed while the castle was still a working garrison. Every image is public-domain or openly licensed, with its source named.
Fig. 617.—Edinample Castle. Block Plan.
1892 · MacGibbon & Ross, vol. 4 (1892)
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Fig. 618.—Edinample Castle. View from North-East.
1892 · MacGibbon & Ross, vol. 4 (1892)
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