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Ardencaple Castle

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Ardencaple Castle
Ardencaple Castle, 1901.
Coordinates56.0091317, -4.7569701

Ardencaple Castle, forby kent as Ardincaple Castle, an whiles refert tae as Ardencaple Castle Light, is a leetit biggin, situatit aboot 1 statute mile (1.6 km) frae Milligs Mill, Argyll an Bute, Scotland.[1][2] The day, aw that remeens o the castle is a touer, perched on the edge o a plateau, leukin doun on a flat tract o land atween it an the shore o the Firth o Clyde.[1] The oreeginal castle wis thocht tae hae been biggit sometime in the 12t yeirhunner,[1] an pairt o the remeens of the oreeginal castle war seyed tae hae existit in the 19t yeirhunner.[1] The day, the anely remeening touer is uised as a navigational aid fur shippin on the Firth o Clyde. Acause o its uise as a lichthouse the touer haes been cried Ardencaple Castle Licht.[1]

Ardencaple Castle Licht. The day the touer is uised as a navigational aid fur shippin on the Firth o Clyde. Photie bi Robie Macauley.

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