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Dunoon (/ d u ˈ n uː n /; Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Omhain [t̪un ˈo.ɪɲ]) is the main town on the Cowal Peninsula in the south of Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland.It is located on the western shore of the upper Firth of Clyde, to the south of the Holy Loch and to the north of Innellan. [2]
Upload another image Auchamore Farmhouse And Steading With Boundary Wall, Auchamore Road 55°56′51″N 4°56′12″W / 55.94738°N 4.936613°W / 55.94738; -4.936613 (Auchamore Farmhouse And Steading With Boundary Wall, Auchamore Road) Category B 26446 Upload Photo Kilbride Bridge, Over Balgie Burn 55°56′49″N 4°56′20″W / 55.947011°N 4.938908°W / 55. ...
Upload another image Whistlefield Inn Including Ancillary Buildings And Boundary Walls 56°05′46″N 4°59′05″W / 56.096143°N 4.984843°W / 56.096143; -4.984843 (Whistlefield Inn Including Ancillary Buildings And Boundary Walls) Category C(S) 5060 Upload another image Castle Toward 55°52′11″N 5°00′51″W / 55.869745°N 5.014059°W / 55.869745; -5. ...
Scottish municipalities have existed in the form of burgh, royal burgh, cities and, currently most common, local councils. Between 1855 and 1975, valuation rolls in Scotland were divided into counties and burghs. A burgh was a Scottish town which had certain privileges conferred by a charter and had a town council to run its affairs.
Castle Toward (Scottish Gaelic: Caisteal an Toll Àird) is a nineteenth-century country house on the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland.. Built in 1820 by Glasgow merchant Kirkman Finlay, it replaced the late medieval Toward Castle, formerly the ancestral home of the Clan Lamont.
Castle House is situated in the Scottish town of Dunoon, Argyll and Bute. It sits on top of a promontory called Castle Hill, between West Bay and East Bay, overlooking Dunoon Pier and the Firth of Clyde. It was built in 1822, and designed by David Hamilton. It is a Category B listed structure. [1] The house was built for James Ewing of ...
Argyll Street Dunoon's Argyll Hotel and East Bay around 1895, with Argyll Street on the left Length 0.48 mi (0.77 km) Location Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, Scotland South end Pier Esplanade North end Bencorum Brae Argyll Street is the main street of the Scottish town of Dunoon, on the Cowal peninsula, Argyll and Bute. It runs for about 0.9 miles (1.4 km), from Pier Esplanade (the A815) in the ...
Following significant population growth, largely associated with the fishing industry, the area became a police burgh in 1868. [2] In this context, the new police commissioners decided to procure a burgh hall: the site they selected was a piece of open land known as Gallowhill, which was part of land donated to the burgh by the local laird, James MacArthur Moir.