Olderfleet Castle
Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
Olderfleet Castle is a castle in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The nearest other castle is Ballygally Castle, 4.3 mi away.
Olderfleet Castle at a glance
Type
Castle
Nearest castle
Ballygally Castle
4.3 mi away
Castles in Dumfries and Galloway
64
Scotland
Location
Dumfries and Galloway
Scotland
About Olderfleet Castle
Olderfleet Castle is a four-storey towerhouse, the remains of which stand on Curran Point to the south of Larne Harbour in Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The place name of Olderfleet may be a corruption of Ulfrecksfiord (or Ulfried's Fjord), the Viking name for Larne Lough.
From the Wikipedia article on Olderfleet Castle, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Olderfleet Castle sits at 54.8450, -5.8090 in Dumfries and Galloway. The closest other castles are Ballygally Castle (4.3 mi), Carrickfergus Castle (9.1 mi) and Glenarm Castle (10 mi). Dumfries and Galloway has 64 castles in all.
