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Castle House, Dunoon

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Dunoon Town Council purchased the house, for £4,600, in 1893 and used it to house the Council Chamber and Tulloch Free Library.
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The building has been home to Castle House Museum since 1998. It is run by Dunoon & Cowal Heritage Trust.
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The Cemetery and the City: The Origins of the Glasgow Necropolis, 1825-1857
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The flag post on Castle Hill marks the original site of a 13th-century
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called Castle Hill, between West Bay and East Bay, overlooking
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Dunoon
Argyll and Bute
Coordinates
55°56′46″N 4°55′28″W / 55.946187°N 4.924443°W / 55.946187; -4.924443
David Hamilton
Dunoon
Argyll and Bute
promontory
Dunoon Pier
Firth of Clyde
David Hamilton
Category B
James Ewing of Strathleven
David Hamilton
Castle Toward
Hutchesons' Hospital
Dunoon Castle
A Caledonian MacBrayne ferry departing Dunoon Pier, viewed from the museum
Caledonian MacBrayne
Dunoon Pier


Castle House, Castle Gardens
Historic Environment Scotland
"Ewing, James (1775–1853), West India merchant, slave owner, and civic leader"
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/53100
UK public library membership

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