{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox building |name = Kilkerran Castle |image = Top Of Kilkerran Castle - geograph.org.uk - 1208069.jpg |caption = Top Of Kilkerran Castle |pushpin_map = |coordinates = |location = Argyll and Bute |location_town = Campbeltown |location_country = Scotland |architect = |client = |engineer = |construction_start_date = |completion_date = 1490 |demolished_date = |cost = |structural_system = |architectural_style = |size = }} '''Kilkerran Castle''' is a ruined castle, near Campbeltown, Kintyre, Argyll and Bute, Scotland.<ref>[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/kinggeorge/k/003ktop00000049u04100007.html "Kilkerran Old Castle - Ayrshire"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170113170957/http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/kinggeorge/k/003ktop00000049u04100007.html |date=13 January 2017 }} ''British Library''. Retrieved 2017-01-12.</ref>

==History== A keep was built in 1490 by King James IV, for the housing of a garrison to subdue the MacDonalds.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst8920.html |title=Guide to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, Section VIII, The Western Isles and Cantyre |accessdate=2009-07-20 |year=2009}}</ref>

Further fortification works were undertaken by King James V,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.electricscotland.com/travel/guide/part28.htm |title=Kilkerran Castle |accessdate=2009-07-20 |year=2009}}</ref> during an expedition to the Isles in 1536 against the Macdonalds and other turbulent clans.

As King James V sailed from Kilkerran (now Campbeltown), Alexander MacDonald, 5th of Dunnyveg took Kilkerran Castle by force and hung the governor from its walls in view of King James V. As a result, Alexander MacDonald was summoned to Stirling and died there in 1538.

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Category:Ruined castles in Argyll and Bute Category:1490 establishments in Scotland Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1490

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