Castle Stalker

Castle Stalker is a large 4 storey stone 15th century tower house, it was built on the site of 14th Century fortalice (a small fortified building) for the Stewarts of Appin. The tower passed to the Campbell family around 1620, following a drunken wager, returned to the Stewarts in 1686, but was forfeited in 1690 following their support of King James VII (1633 - 1701).

25 miles from Oban, on the west coast of Scotland, Castle Stalker stands at the mouth of Loch Laich. It is near Loch Linnhe, on a rocky islet known as the Rock of the Cormorants. It has had a long history of violence, particularly murder of its owners, associated with it. Right from Lord of Lorn, Sir John Stewart, who built the castle in its present form in the 1440s, and was murdered in1463, till the Governor of Sarawak, Duncan Stewart who owned the castle when he was murdered in 1947, many of the owners have had violent deaths.

A major restoration was begun in 1965 by the owner, Lt. Col. D. R. Stewart Allward, whose family still live in the castle. It is open to the public by appointment. Castle Stalker is located on an island in Loch Laich and approached by boat, from Portnacroish.