Kinlochaline Castle is located at the head of Loch Aline, positioned strategically for coastal defence. Four stories tall, , with walls that are blocks of rare sandstone. The castle was burned in 1644, when it was besieged by Alasdair Mac Colla during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The castle was attacked by the Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll in 1679, during a feud. Kinlochaline was abandoned about 1690.