In Person Highland – Inverness, Black Isle, Easter Ross Ballone Castle Ballone Castle was built in 1590 and is a late example of a Medieval Z Plan Tower House. It is a Category A Listed Building with a strong central tower with two further towers on opposite corners. The castle stands on the cliff edge looking out to sea, a mile east of Portmahomack. It was uninhabited from 1693 and gradually became derelict over three hundred years. The ruin was bought in 1990 by Lachie and Annie Stewart, who set about restoring it as a family home. View Details Facilities Disabled WC WC Refreshments Parking Not Accessible
In Person Highland – Inverness, Black Isle, Easter Ross Cromarty Courthouse Museum This A Listed building was completed in 1773. It was rescued from decay and restored in 1991 and is now run by a locally based Trust as a museum and visitor centre. View Details Facilities WC Parking Not Accessible
In Person Highland – Inverness, Black Isle, Easter Ross Emergency Operations Bunker - Behind the Radar A top-secret RADAR chain was constructed around Britain in the late 1930s. Three bomb-proof underground bunkers were built for the RAF in 1941 in the Raigmore Estate. Their purpose was top secret - to process RADAR signals from around the North of England, the Scottish and Irish coasts. This allowed the detection and interception of enemy bombers in the North Sea and the Atlantic. This is the single remaining bunker, the other two having been demolished. During the Cold War it was converted into a nuclear, biological and chemical hardened facility which could have been a Regional seat of Government. Until recently the bunker was used as the Council’s Emergency Centre. View Details Facilities Disabled WC WC Events For Children Parking Not Accessible
In Person Highland – Inverness, Black Isle, Easter Ross Fairburn Tower Fairburn Tower is a rare survival from the Scottish Renaissance. Situated in beautiful Highland landscape, half an hour’s drive north-west of Inverness, Fairburn Tower was built around 1545 for Murdo Mackenzie, a favourite at the rich court of King James V and Mary of Guise. View Details Facilities WC Events For Children Not Accessible
In Person Highland – Inverness, Black Isle, Easter Ross Gairloch Museum Gairloch Museum is located in a converted nuclear bunker with galleries showcasing the history, culture and natural heritage of this beautiful area of the North West Highlands. View Details Facilities Disabled Access Disabled WC WC Refreshments Events For Children Parking
In Person Highland – Inverness, Black Isle, Easter Ross Groam House Museum Groam House is a harled 18th Century white painted two storey harled town house standing gable end to the High Street in Rosemarkie. The elegant courtyard is decorated with Pictish themed mosaic panels. Since 1980, the museum has been a Centre for Pictish Art internationally known for its magnificent Rosemarkie Cross-slab and display of other Pictish carved stones made some 1200 years ago for the vibrant monastic community of Rosemarkie. View Details Facilities Events For Children Limited Access
In Person Highland – Inverness, Black Isle, Easter Ross Highland Archive Centre High Life Highland’s Highland Archive Service cares for historic documents of the Highlands, dating from the 1200s to the present day, in its four archive centres in Inverness, Wick, Fort William and Portree. View Details Facilities Disabled Access Disabled WC WC Events For Children Parking
In Person Highland – Inverness, Black Isle, Easter Ross Highland Buddhist Centre Our Buddhist Centre has several rooms: a shrine room where we gather to meditate and practice. We have a library, sitting room and kitchen as well as other rooms. View Details Facilities WC Refreshments Not Accessible
In Person Highland – Inverness, Black Isle, Easter Ross Jim Savage-Lowden Observatory Highlands Astronomical Society is the proud owner of a fully equipped astronomical observatory opened in 2008, the first observatory in the Highlands. The observatory houses a 14" Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope and there are a number of other telescopes which the public and members can view the night sky from autumn until spring and also safely observe the sun through telescopes with special filters in the summer. View Details Facilities Disabled WC WC Events For Children Parking Limited Access
In Person Highland – Inverness, Black Isle, Easter Ross Kirkmichael The medieval buildings at Kirkmichael were originally a pre-Reformation church, becoming a post-Reformation kirk until it was replaced in 1769. The buildings have survived as mausoleum from that date, although requiring to be restored in a major project over 2016/17. The nave mausoleum now houses a unique display of pre-Reformation ornate medieval gravestones. The site contains an external mausoleum of great heritage interest. View Details Facilities Disabled Access Parking
