Torosay Castle is a Victorian ‘Scottish baronial’ mansion designed by architect David Bryce in 1856 and completed in 1858 for John Campbell, replacing Achnacroish House. It was sold to Arbuthnot Charles Guthrie in 1865.
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Torosay Castle
Please note that the Castle is currently closed to the public but there is a beautiful woodland walk from Craignure through to Torosay Castle Gardens.
Set in 12 acres of gardens, now including statue walk, walled garden, water garden, rockery, domed folly, sculpted fountains, sundial, and Japanese garden with spectacular sea view. The layout of formal terraces is attributed to Sir Robert Lorimer, 1899.
Mull and Iona wildlife blog
- Return of the Whales May 2, 2012Despite frequent reports of sightings from fishing boats in the area, none of the trip boats from Tobermory had managed to get a view of one of our larger summer migrants yet, however today the skipper of Silver Swift took local Wildlife photographer Nic Davies out on a trip which resulted in 2 different Minke Whales being seen. Reports back from Nic was tha […]
- Dolphins occurring regularly off Mull May 1, 2012We are still to get our first Whale sighting of the year from any of the trip boats, but we are having sightings reported by the fishing boats so they are definitely out there somewhere! One of the main reasons is that the island seems much quieter than at the same time in recent years, which means there are less trips going out and recently all the interest […]