Balloch Castle
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Balloch Castle () is situated on the southern tip of Loch Lomond in the Balloch Country Park.
The castle is of relatively modern vintage, having been built in 1808 by the architect Robert Lugar at the order of John Buchanan, a partner in the Glasgow Ship Bank. The new castle used stone from from an earlier castle built near the current site by the Earl of Lennox in 1238 and occupied by the Lennox family until approximately 1390. Almost no evidence of this earlier structure still exists. The current castle houses the park's visitors' center.
It was also the name of the castle that stood on the same spot where Taymouth Castle now stands near Kenmore in Perthshire, Scotland. It was built in 1550 and demolished in 1805.
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