Castle Coeffin

Coeffin Castle ruins (photo by Colin Smith)

Coeffin is on the island of Lismore, an island in Loch Linnhe, in Argyll, on the west coast of Scotland at Vorlage:Gbmapping.

Coeffin Castle was built in the 13th century, probably by the MacDougalls of Lorn, on the site of a Viking fortress on the northwest coast of the island. It later passed to the Campbells. The name Coeffin is thought to come from Caifen who was a Viking prince, and whose sister supposedly haunted the castle until her remains were taken back to be buried beside her lover in Norway.

The castle was abandoned in the 17th century and is now a ruin.