Lunan

Lunan
Angus
Ruins of Redcastle, opposite Lunan
Location
Grid reference:	NO688515
Location:	56°39’15"N, 2°30’38"W
Data
Post town:	Montrose / Arbroath
Postcode:	DD10 / DD11
Dialling code:	01674 / 01241
Local Government
Council:	Angus
Parliamentary constituency:	Angus

Lunan is a hamlet in Angus, in the parish of the same name, 4 miles south of Montrose.

The hamlet overlooks Lunan Bay, which is itself also a hamlet, at the mouth of the Lunan Water.

A 16th-century priest of Lunan church, which is in the hamlet of Lunan Bay, Walter Mill, was one of the last Protestant martyrs to be burned at St Andrews. The church itself was rebuilt in 1844.

The 15th-century Red Castle, so called from the red sandstone it is built from, is 500 yards to the south of the hamlet, on the south bank of the Lunan Water.

Lunan Bay, with Second World War tank traps

References

• Lunan in the Gazetteer for Scotland.
• Red Castle, Site Number NO65SE 10.00 - CANMORE (RCAHMS)