- TITLE
- Strome Castle and Loch Carron
- EXTERNAL ID
- QZP40_CARD_1149
- PLACENAME
- Strome Ferry
- DISTRICT
- South West Ross
- OLD COUNTY/PARISH
- ROSS: Lochalsh
- CREATOR
- J Valentine & Co.
- SOURCE
- Highland Libraries
- ASSET ID
- 33072
- KEYWORDS
- postcards
Ross-shire
Ross and Cromarty
Wester Ross
castles
promontories
lochs
ferries

This postcard shows a view of Loch Carron with the ruins of Strome Castle on the right. The castle was built in the 15th century on a strategic promontory overlooking the mouth of the inner loch. It passed to the Camerons of Lochiel and then to the Macdonells of Glengarry before being captured and virtually destroyed by the Mackenzies of Kintail in 1602. The ruin was taken over by the National Trust for Scotland in 1939.
Loch Carron is a sea loch in two parts, with an inner and an outer loch separated by the promontory on which Strome Castle sits. Across the narrows from the castle, on the southern shores of the loch, lies the village of Stromeferry which takes its name from the ferry service which once operated there.