Dunoon

{{see also|List of listed buildings in Dunoon}}

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Dunoon Castle was built on a small, partly artificial, conical hill beside the Firth of Clyde in the 12th century, of which low walls remain.{{cite web |url=https://canmore.org.uk/site/40729/dunoon-castle |title= Dunoon Castle|publisher=Canmore |access-date=11 December 2016}} It eventually became a royal castle with the Earls of Argyll (Campbells) as hereditary keepers, paying a nominal rent of a single red rose to the sovereign. Mary, Queen of Scots, visited Dunoon Castle on 26 July 1563 and granted several charters during her visit.{{cite web|url=http://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townhistory3813.html |title=Gazetteer for Scotland: Dunoon |publisher=Scottish-places.info |access-date=14 December 2016}} In 1646 the Dunoon massacre of members of Clan Lamont by members of Clan Campbell took place.

In the early 19th century, the town's main street, Argyll Street, stopped at Moir Street. Instead of continuing to Dunoon Pier, it turned right at today's Sinbad's Bar. Before Dunoon Burgh Hall was built, beginning in 1873, the land was an open field, owned by James MacArthur Moir, leading to an area known as the Gallowhill. There were no streets and houses between Argyll Street and Edward Street. Argyll Street, roughly as it is seen today, was completed by 1870. Moir donated some of his land for the building of the Burgh Hall, but he did not get to see its completion; he died by suicide in 1872.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dunoonburghhall.org.uk/files/67999-DBH-Chronicles.pdf|title=Dunoon Burgh Hall Chronicles, issue 1}}{{Dead link|date=September 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

{{blockquote|Dunoon in the 21st century is overlaid with the ghost of a town which, in 1885, possessed two banks, 21 insurance agencies, 10 hotels, a gas company, two bowling greens, three weekly papers, the West of Scotland Convalescent Sea-side Homes (complete with Romanesque hydropathic spa) and the lavishly appointed second homes of some of Scotland's most successful people.|Saving the Hall (Jay Merrick, 2017)}}

The two banks mentioned above were the Union Bank of Scotland and the City of Glasgow Bank.{{cite book|author=John COLEGATE|title=Colegate's Guide to Dunoon, Kirn, and Hunter's Quay. Second edition. [With plates.]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AR5bAAAAcAAJ|access-date=30 December 2020|year=1868|publisher=John Colegate|page=7|archive-date=20 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210920232539/https://books.google.com/books?id=AR5bAAAAcAAJ|url-status=live}} The hydropathic spa, meanwhile, was "an elegant new baths building, named Ardvullin, erected a little to the north of the village as a hydropathic establishment, where baths - hot, cold, artificial salt, and Turkish — may be had at moderate charges."

Many of the town's early villas had their own private bathing ground or boxes.

{{blockquote|The best bathing place for ladies is the West Bay. Gentlemen's bathing places: Rocks, foot of Castle Hill, deep at all states of the tide. Sand: beyond Baugie Burn, beginning of Bullwood, shallow and sandy. Rocks: behind Argyll Hotel, available only at high water. Kirn Pier and Hunters Quay, deep water.|Colegate's Guide to Dunoon, Kirn, and Hunter's Quay (John Colegate, 1868)[https://play.google.com/store/books/details/John_COLEGATE_Colegate_s_Guide_to_Dunoon_Kirn_and?id=AR5bAAAAcAAJ Colegate's Guide to Dunoon, Kirn, and Hunter's Quay (Second edition)] - John Colegate (1868), page 8}}

The population of the united parishes of Dunoon and Kilmun in 1861 was 5,444; in 1866 the estimated population of Dunoon, from Baugie Burn to Hunters Quay, was 3,000.[https://play.google.com/store/books/details/John_COLEGATE_Colegate_s_Guide_to_Dunoon_Kirn_and?id=AR5bAAAAcAAJ Colegate's Guide to Dunoon, Kirn, and Hunter's Quay (Second edition)] - John Colegate (1868), page 12

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During the World Wars, as the main part of the Firth of Clyde defences, the Cloch Point-to-Dunoon anti-submarine boom was anchored to the shore in Dunoon below Castle Hill.{{cite web|url=https://canmore.org.uk/site/239524/clyde-defences-cloch-point-to-dunoon-anti-submarine-boom |title=Clyde Defences, Cloch Point To Dunoon Anti-submarine Boom |publisher=Canmore |date=3 July 2013 |access-date=15 February 2017}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.bute-at-war.org/butewar.shtml|title=Bute during World War II|website=www.bute-at-war.org}} A Palmerston Fort and camp at Ardhallow Battery in the south of the town provided one of the coastal defence gun emplacements that covered the anti-submarine boom and Firth of Clyde waters. There also was a gun emplacement atop Castle Hill.

In 1961, as the Cold War intensified, the Holy Loch's importance grew when the U.S. Navy submarine tender USS Proteus brought Polaris ballistic missiles, nuclear submarines to the Firth of Clyde at Sandbank. Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament protesters drew this to the public's attention.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19610515&id=oBI1AAAAIBAJ&pg=4603,2219229&hl=en |title=Anti-Polaris Protest at Dunoon. Angry Kerbside Exchanges |work=The Glasgow Herald |date=15 May 1961 |page=8 |access-date=11 December 2016}} Holy Loch was, for thirty years, the home port of U.S. Navy Submarine Squadron 14 and Dunoon, therefore, became a garrison town.

In 1991, the Holy Loch base was deemed unnecessary following the demise of the Soviet Union and was subsequently withdrawn. The last submarine tender to be based there, the USS Simon Lake, left Holy Loch in March 1992, leading to a major and continuing downturn in the local economy.[https://theaou.org/if-you-rebuild-it-they-will-come-unlocking-local-creativity-doon-the-watter-jay-merrick/ "If you rebuild it, they will come: Unlocking local creativity 'doon the watter' | Jay Merrick"]{{Dead link|date=February 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} - The Academy of Urbanism

In May 2012, Dunoon and Campbeltown were jointly named as the rural places in Scotland most vulnerable to a downturn in a report by the Scottish Agricultural College looking at ninety places.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-18234531|title='Vulnerable' Scottish rural towns listed|date=28 May 2012|work=BBC News |access-date=11 December 2016}}{{cite news|url=http://www.scotsman.com/scotland-on-sunday/politics/revealed-our-rural-towns-on-the-brink-1-2320887|title=Revealed: our rural towns on the brink|last=Cowling|first=Emma|date=27 May 2012|work=Scotsland on Sunday|access-date=11 December 2016}}

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Dunoon is represented in the Scottish Parliament by Jenni Minto, of the Scottish National Party (SNP), who holds the Argyll and Bute seat.{{cite web|title=Scottish Parliamentary Election 6 May 2021 - Results|date=6 May 2021|publisher=Argyll and Bute Council|url=https://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/scottish-parliamentary-election-6-may-2021-results|accessdate=14 June 2021}} Dunoon also lies within the Highlands and Islands electoral region, from which a further seven additional members are elected to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

In the House of Commons, Dunoon is represented by the SNP's Brendan O'Hara, who holds a seat also titled Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber,{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/politics/constituencies/S14000005|title=Argyll & Bute parliamentary constituency - Election 2019|access-date=2019-12-14|language=en-GB}} although this seat has different boundaries from the one used for the Scottish Parliament.

Argyll and Bute Council is the Local Authority for the council area covering Dunoon. It is one of 32 such council areas across Scotland. Dunoon forms a single ward for elections to Argyll and Bute Council, electing three councillors via the single transferable vote system. At the last election, held in May 2017, one independent and one member from each of the SNP and the Conservatives was elected to represent the town.{{cite web|url=https://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/sites/default/files/Unknown/declarationofresults_report_ward_7_-_dunoon_05052017_145118.pdf|title=Declaration of Results: Ward 7, Dunoon|date=5 May 2017|access-date=15 June 2021|publisher=Argyll and Bute Council|archive-date=16 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210616043343/https://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/sites/default/files/Unknown/declarationofresults_report_ward_7_-_dunoon_05052017_145118.pdf|url-status=dead}}

Dunoon has a community council,{{cite web|url=https://argyll-bute.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=e20e1ac847424abbbfced0a71faac0d6|title=Community councils map|access-date=14 June 2021|publisher=Argyll and Bute Council}} whose primary role is to represent the views of the community to the Local Authority and other public bodies.{{cite web|url=https://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/council-and-government/community-councils|title=community councils|date=14 November 2012|access-date=14 June 2021|publisher=Argyll and Bute Council}}

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There are a number of churches in Dunoon, including:

Church of Scotland: St John's Church

Roman Catholic: Our Lady and St Mun's Church{{Cite web|url=https://www.stmuns.com/|title=Our Lady and St Mun's Church Dunoon|website=stmuns|access-date=27 July 2020|archive-date=27 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727130714/https://www.stmuns.com/|url-status=dead}}

Other churches:

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• Cowal Baptist Church{{Cite web|url=https://scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/cowal-baptist-church-dunoon/|title=Cowal Baptist Church, Dunoon|date=24 September 2017}}
• Dunoon Baptist Church Centre{{Cite web|url=https://dunoonbaptistchurch.org/|title=Dunoon Baptist Church – Working, Worshipping and Witnessing for God in the community.|website=dunoonbaptistchurch.org}}
• Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
• Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses{{Cite web|url=https://dunoon.inuklocal.co.uk/Churches/Kingdom-Hall-Of-JehovahS-Witnesses-11-6341|title=Kingdom Hall Of Jehovah'S Witnesses - Church - Dunoon Argyll & Bute UK|website=dunoon.inuklocal.co.uk}}

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There is evidence of an episcopal seat at Dunoon from the latter part of the 15th century. No remains of the Bishop's Palace now exist, the site is now occupied by the playground of Dunoon Primary School, between Hillfoot Street and Kirk Street.[https://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/sites/default/files/final_dunoon_conservation_area_appraisal_and_management_plan_consultation_response_0.pdf DUNOON CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL and CONSERVATION STRATEGY, 2017] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200723230626/https://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/sites/default/files/final_dunoon_conservation_area_appraisal_and_management_plan_consultation_response_0.pdf |date=23 July 2020 }} - Argyll & Bute Council

Defunct religious buildings

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• High Kirk, closed 2023{{Cite web|url=https://cowalkirk.org.uk/the-high-kirk-article-from-the-22-september-2023-edition-of-the-dunoon-observer/|title=End of an era as Dunoon's High Kirk set to close|website=cowalkirk.org}}
• St Cuthbert's Church, demolished 1994
• Dunoon Free Church (built 1843), closed 2021{{Cite web|url=https://freechurch.org/im-new/find-a-church/church|title=Church|website=Free Church of Scotland}}{{Dead link|date=September 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}[https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=ZrGM8n_uNOcC Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Graphic and Accurate Description of Every Place in Scotland], Frances Hindes Groome (1901), p. 444

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Dunoon's Victorian pier was extended to the current structure between 1896 and 1898.[http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB26450 DUNOON PIER WITH WAITING ROOMS AND PIER MASTER'S OFFICE, SIGNAL TOWER AND ADJOINING TEAROOM, TICKET LODGE, PIER RAILINGS] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190620000852/http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB26450 |date=20 June 2019 }} – Historic Environment Scotland It was shortened to allow the building of a breakwater in 2005, just to the south of the pier. As well as protecting the pier and its architecture from storm surges, a new link span was installed alongside the breakwater. This was to allow the berthing and loading of roll-on/roll-off ferries instead of the side-loading ferries that used to serve the pier. A tender to serve the new link-span between two interested parties, Caledonian MacBrayne and Western Ferries, came to nothing. Prior to June 2011, the pier was in daily use by Caledonian MacBrayne, who ran a regular foot passenger and car-ferry service to Gourock. However, after June 2011, a renewed tendering process produced a passenger-only ferry service (Argyll Ferries, owned by Caledonian MacBrayne) using the breakwater for berthing. On 1 September 2004, during the construction of the breakwater, the cargo vessel Jackie Moon (82 metres in length) ran aground on the breakwater, with six people on board. Since the breakwater became operational in June 2011, Argyll Ferries operate from this docking facility. The Waverley struck the breakwater on 26 June 2009, with some 700 people on board. The pier was partially refurbished by Argyll and Bute Council during 2015. Now containing meeting rooms, it is purely a tourist attraction.{{cite web |url=https://www.piers.org.uk/pier/dunoon/ |title=Dunoon |website=National Piers Society |date=10 June 2015 |access-date=12 December 2016 |archive-date=21 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161121174140/https://www.piers.org.uk/pier/dunoon/ |url-status=live }}

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Dunoon Burgh Hall opened in 1874, the work of notable Glasgow architect Robert Alexander Bryden, who is buried in Dunoon Cemetery, a mile to the north. It is a Scottish baronial-style building that housed the municipal offices and had a hall accommodating 500 people.{{cite web|url=https://www.dunoonburghhall.org.uk/|title=Dunoon's culture and events hub|publisher=Dunoon Burgh Hall|access-date=20 February 2017}} The Category B listed building re-opened in June 2017, and is a fully accessible venue for exhibitions, performances and gatherings. Alongside a gallery and theatre, the venue offers creative workshop space, a garden and a café.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-40333428|title=Hall reopens as contemporary arts centre|date=19 June 2017|work=BBC News|access-date=21 May 2018}}{{cite web|title=Burgh Hall|url=http://www.theatrestrust.org.uk/resources/theatres/show/3673-burgh-hall|website=Theatres Database|publisher=The Theatres Trust|access-date=20 February 2017}}{{cite web|title=Argyll Street, Burgh Hall Building|url=http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB26439|publisher=Historic Environment Scotland|access-date=20 February 2017}}

On 20 August 2021, several Argyll Street buildings were destroyed in an arson attack.[https://www.argyllbute24.co.uk/two-charged-after-fire/ "Two charged after town centre fire"] – ArgyllBute24.co.uk

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Mary Campbell, also known as "Highland Mary" and "Bonny Mary O' Argyll", was born at Auchamore Farm in Dunoon. She had a relationship with the bard Robert Burns.{{Cite web|url=https://www.castlehousemuseum.org.uk/post/the-creation-and-controversy-of-dunoon-s-highland-mary|title=The Creation and Controversy of Dunoon's Highland Mary|date=21 June 2022|website=Castle House Museum}} The Highland Mary statue was erected in 1896; it is prominently sited on Castle Hill, overlooking the breakwater in Dunoon.{{cite web |url=http://www.portaltothepast.co.uk/article/3345/Robert-Burns-and-Highland-Mary |title=Robert Burns and Highland Mary |publisher=Portal to the Past |access-date=14 December 2016 |archive-date=20 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220212633/http://www.portaltothepast.co.uk/article/3345/Robert-Burns-and-Highland-Mary |url-status=dead }}{{Cite DNB12 |wstitle= Stevenson, David Watson |volume= 3 |pages= 413-414 |last= Caw |first= James |author-link= James Caw |year=1912|short= 1}}{{cite web|url=http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB26437 |title=Statue Of 'Highland Mary' |publisher=Portal.historicenvironment.scot |access-date=11 January 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.robertburns.org/encyclopedia/HighlandHarry.449.shtml |title=Robert Burns Country: The Burns Encyclopedia: Highland Harry |website=Robertburns.org |access-date=22 November 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.glasgowsculpture.com/pg_biography.php?sub=stevenson_dw|title=David Watson Stevenson (1842–1904), sculptor, a biography|first=Tim Gardner -|last=Webmaster}} The statue is a scheduled monument (LB26437). {{Cite web|url=https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB26437|title=STATUE OF "HIGHLAND MARY" (LB26437)|website=portal.historicenvironment.scot}}

The war memorial of Dunoon is located in the Castle Gardens, overlooking the pier.{{Cite web|url=https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/146053|title=Dunoon Cenotaph WW1 and WW2 - War Memorials Online|website=www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk}}

The Queen's Hall is the town's major multi-function hall complex.{{cite web|url=https://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/theatre/queens-hall |title=The Queens Hall – Dunoon | Argyll and Bute Council |website=Argyll-bute.gov.uk |access-date=22 November 2016}} It is situated opposite the head of the Victorian pier and built in 1958. It was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 11 August 1958.{{cite web|url=https://www.sdpscotland.co.uk/events/dunoon-queens-hall-meet-the-buyer/ |title=Dunoon Queens Hall Meet the Buyer – Supplier Development Programme |publisher=Sdpscotland.co.uk |access-date=11 January 2017}}

Riverside Swim and Health Centre, including an indoor pool (25m long) and associated facilities, located on Alexandra Parade.

Dunoon Library is situated in the rebuilt Queens Hall at the Castle Gardens.{{Cite web|url=https://liveargyll.co.uk/facility/dunoon-library/|title=Dunoon Library}}

A small group of rocks, known as the Gantocks, lie off the coast at Dunoon. The navigation beacon on the Gantocks in the Firth of Clyde is close to the coast at Dunoon. It was built in 1886.{{Cite web|url=http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/index.php/Secrets/TheGantocks|title=Secret Scotland - The Gantocks|website=Secret Scotland}}

The Clan Lamont Memorial, also known as the Dunoon Massacre Memorial, is on Tom-A-Mhoid Road close to Castle Hill. It was dedicated in 1906 and commemorates the Dunoon massacre of 1646, when the Campbell Clan attacked the Lamont Clan, killing over 200 people.{{Canmore | num= 183507| desc=Dunoon, Tom A Mhoid Road, Clan Lamont Memorial|access-date=21 February 2017}}{{cite web|title=Clan Lamont Memorial, Dunoon|url=http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/warmemscot-post-42922.html|website=Commemorations Project|publisher=The Scottish Military Research Group|access-date=21 February 2017}} Includes several photographs

Local wildlife includes seals, otters, dolphins, basking sharks, roe deer, red deer, red squirrels, and many species of birds.{{cite web|url=http://visitcowal.co.uk/discover-cowal/environment-and-wildlife/where-to-find-wildlife/|title=Where to Find wildlife – visitcowal|access-date=21 February 2017}}

The Castle House Museum opens during the summer season. It holds historical information and displays for Dunoon and the Cowal peninsula.{{cite web|url=http://www.castlehousemuseum.org.uk/ |title=Castle House Museum Dunoon. History, culture, geneaology services, clans and exhibitions |website=Castlehouse Museum|access-date=22 November 2016}}

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The Cowal Highland Gathering, established in 1894, attracts contestants and spectators from all over the world.{{cite web |title=COWAL HIGHLAND GATHERING (1974) |url=http://movingimage.nls.uk/film/9437 |website=Moving Image Archive |publisher=National Library of Scotland |access-date=11 July 2018}} It is held annually over the final weekend in August at Dunoon Stadium.{{cite web|url=http://www.cowalgathering.com/ |title=Cowal Highland Gathering – World's Biggest Highland Games |website=Cowalgathering.com |access-date=22 November 2016}}

Cowal Open Studios, held over a fortnight in September, gives the opportunity to visit the studios of artists around Dunoon and Cowal.

Cowalfest celebrates the outdoors activities like rambling around Dunoon for ten days in October.

Since the 1930s Dunoon has hosted the Royal National Mòd a number of times – 1930, 1950, 1968, 1994, 2000, 2006, 2012 and 2018.[http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/mod/ List of Mod's places] for each year on Sabhal Mòr Ostaig website

In 2013, the first Dunoon Film Festival was held over three days and opened with first public screening of Your Cheatin' Heart, a series made by the BBC that had last been shown on television in 1990.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-22480356 |title=Your Cheatin' Heart to open first Dunoon Film Festival |work=BBC News|date=10 May 2013}}

Dunoon is accessible by direct land and sea routes and indirectly by rail at Gourock.

Dunoon lies towards the southern end of the A815 road. At its northernmost point, near Cairndow, this road joins the A83 and provides access to the town by road from Loch Lomond / Glasgow in the east, from Inveraray / Oban in the north and from Campbeltown in the west.

Two ferry operators provide services to Dunoon from Gourock:

Caledonian MacBrayne

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The public service route provided by the Scottish Government owned Caledonian MacBrayne, which is a foot-passenger-only service between Dunoon Breakwater and Gourock pier, giving easy access to the National Rail Network.{{Cite web|url=https://www.calmac.co.uk/gourock-dunoon-service|title=Gourock to Dunoon Service | CalMac Ferries|website=Calmac Ferries}}

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Western Ferries

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Local company Western Ferries (Clyde) LTD, carries motor vehicles and foot passengers between Hunters Quay near Dunoon and McInroy's Point on the A770, (Cloch Road). {{Cite web|url=https://www.western-ferries.co.uk|title=Western Ferries (Clyde) Ltd|website=Western Ferries}}

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Travel connections

For foot passengers at Gourock Pier, a ScotRail train service provides access to the National Rail network at Glasgow Central, via the local service Inverclyde Line.{{Cite web|url=https://www.scotrail.co.uk/plan-your-journey/stations-and-facilities/grk|title=Train to and from Gourock | ScotRail|website=Scotrail}}

Public transport within Dunoon and the surrounding area is provided under government subsidy by bus and coach operator West Coast Motors.

West Coast Motors' route 486 provides a regular return journey from Dunoon town centre to Inveraray, where it connects with a Scottish Citylink service 926 and 976 onward to Campbeltown, Oban, Glasgow and points in-between.{{Cite web|url=https://www.westcoastmotors.co.uk/services/WCM/486|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724190355/https://www.westcoastmotors.co.uk/services/WCM/486|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 July 2020|title=486 - Dunoon to Inveraray|website=West Coast Motors}} Route 478 runs from Dunoon Pier to Portavadie six days a week.{{Cite web |date=2020-05-21 |title=SCOTLAND'S BERMUDA TRIANGLE |url=https://www.keybuses.com/article/scotlands-bermuda-triangle |access-date=2023-09-26 |website=www.keybuses.com |language=en}}

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Modern Dunoon owes its existence to steam power; as late as 1822 there were only three or four slated houses, the rest of the residences being traditional Highland cottages.{{cite book |last1=Macdonald |first1=Hugh |title=Days at the coast : a series of sketches descriptive of the Firth of Clyde, its watering places, its scenery, and its associations |date=1878 |publisher=Dunn |location=Glasgow |url=https://archive.org/stream/daysatcoastserie00macd#page/346/mode/2up |page=346|access-date=11 July 2018}} In the New Statistical Account, the MP James Ewing from Glasgow is named as beginning the expansion of the village when he built Castle House close to Dunoon Castle.{{cite book |last1=Mackay |first1=M |title=The new statistical account of Scotland |date=1845 |publisher=W. Blackwood and Sons |location=Edinburgh and London |page=607 |edition=Vol 7 |url=https://archive.org/stream/newstatisticala02unkngoog#page/n1236/mode/1up/ |access-date=11 July 2018}} The growth of the village increased from that time, paralleling the engineering-led growth of the steamers.{{cite web|title=OS 6-inch map 1843–1882, with Bing opacity slider|url=http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=55.9475&lon=-4.9320&layers=5&b=3|website=National Library of Scotland|publisher=Ordnance Survey|access-date=12 October 2017}} Other infrastructural advances also helped like the construction of a {{convert|130|yd|m|adj=mid|-long|abbr=off}} jetty in 1835.{{cite book |last1=Williamson |first1=James |title=The Clyde passenger steamers : its rise and progress during the nineteenth century : from the 'Comet' of 1812 to the 'King Edward' of 1901 |date=1904 |publisher=J. Maclehose |location=Glasgow |page=78 |url=https://archive.org/stream/clydepassengerst00willrich#page/78/mode/2up |access-date=11 July 2018}} From 1812 to the late 1960s, thousands of holiday-makers travelled doon the watter from Glasgow and industrial Lanarkshire to Dunoon and to numerous other town piers on the Firth of Clyde.

In 1868, the following summer excursions by water could be had from Dunoon (going and returning the same day):{{cite book|author=John COLEGATE|title=Colegate's Guide to Dunoon, Kirn, and Hunter's Quay. Second edition. [With plates.]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AR5bAAAAcAAJ|access-date=30 December 2020|year=1868|publisher=John Colegate|page=13}}

• Ardentinny, Chancellor, 11 A.M.
• Ardrishaig, Iona, 9.30 A.M.
• Arran, Hero, 10.30 A.M.
• Arrochar, Chancellor, 11 A.M.
• Ayr, Vale of Clyde, 9.15 A.M.
• Blairmore, Chancellor, 11 A.M.
• Brodick, Hero, 10.30 A.M.
• Campbeltown, Gael, 9.15 A.M.
• Carradale, Gael, 9.15 A.M.
• Fairlie, Vale of Clyde, 9.15 A.M.
• Gareloch, early steamer to Greenock, thence per Garelochhead steamer
• Innellan, various during the day
• Kyles of Bute, to Tighnabruaich or Colintraive, Iona; Kilchattan Bay, Bute, Hero
• Lamlash, Hero, 10.30 A.M.
• Largs, Vale of Clyde, or early steamer to Innellan, thence cross by Wemyss Bay Railway Steamer to Wemyss Bay
• Lochgoil, Chancellor and Lochlong; change at Blairmore
• Loch Lomond, Chancellor or early steamer to Bowling, thence by rail to Balloch, thence by steamer to Tarbert, where cross to Arrochar, and catch Chancellor returning, or vice-versa
• Loch Long, Chancellor
• Millport, Vale of Clyde, 9.15 A.M.
• Rothesay, various during the day
• Tarbert, Iona
• Troon, Vale of Clyde
• Wemyss Bay, steamer to Innellan, thence cross by Wemyss Bay Railway Steamer to Wemyss Bay

Only one Clyde steamer, the Waverley, satisfies demand for this business today. It berths at the breakwater when visiting Dunoon during its summer season.{{cite news |url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13307769.The_Waverley__Paddling_doon_the_watter_for_40_years/ |title=The Waverley: Paddling doon the watter for 40 years |first=Marianne |last=Taylor |work=The Herald |date=9 May 2015 |access-date=11 December 2016}}

Dunoon is served by three primary schools. Dunoon Primary School is on Hillfoot Street; this building was the original 1641 location of Dunoon Grammar School. St Muns Primary School{{cite web|url=https://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/content/st-muns-primary-school|title=St Muns Primary School|first=Argyll and Bute|last=Council|date=3 November 2010}} is on Pilot Street and Kirn Primary School is on Park Road.{{cite web|url=https://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/content/kirn-primary-school-29|title=Kirn Primary School|first=Argyll and Bute|last=Council|date=31 January 2018|website=Kirm Primary School}}

Dunoon Grammar School is located on Ardenslate Road in Kirn.

The University of the Highlands and Islands' Argyll College has a campus in Dunoon, located in the West Bay, near the breakwater and Castle Hill.{{cite web |url=https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/campuses/campus_argyll |title=Argyll College UHI |publisher=University of the Highlands and Islands |access-date=7 December 2016 |archive-date=20 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220100144/https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/campuses/campus_argyll |url-status=dead }}

{{main|National Cycle Route 75}}

Dunoon is on the NCR75 a route from Edinburgh to Tarbert on the Kintyre peninsula.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sustrans.org.uk/find-a-route-on-the-national-cycle-network/national-cycle-network-routes-in-glasgow-and-the-surrounding-area/|title=National Cycle Network routes in Glasgow and the West|website=Sustrans}} The National Cycle Network is maintained by sustrans.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sustrans.org.uk/about-us/|title=About us|website=Sustrans}}

{{main|Dunoon Stadium}}

File:Dunoon Stadium (geograph 6202146).jpg

The town's sporting arena is Dunoon Stadium, which is located in the north of the town on Argyll Street. When it hosted football matches, it had the largest capacity of any amateur ground in Scotland.{{citation needed|date=February 2014}} It later became the focal point of the Cowal Highland Gathering. Motorcycle dirt track racing (or speedway) was staged at the stadium on 18 June 1932 as part of the annual Dunoon and Cowal Agricultural Show. A demonstration event had been staged in May 1932.

The Dunoon Youth Football League (DYFL), founded in 1981, is a voluntary organisation that teaches football skills to all interested children with ages between 4 and 17. The DYFL have their own clubhouse and changing facilities at Dunoon Stadium. All coaches are parents who have received coaching certification through the Scottish Youth Football Association (SYFA), and the club has a PGA officer and coaches with Sports Injuries First Aid certification.

Cowal Rugby Club was formed in 1976. In 2008 it scored its first league victory in the Scottish Hydro Electric Western Regional League West Division 2.

Dunoon Amateurs F.C. was founded in 1975 and play football at Dunoon Stadium and Dunoon Grammar School.

Dunoon Camanachd was established in 2015; the shinty team started competing in South Division 2, in 2016.

Cowal Golf Club is situated on the hillside above Kirn. Founded in October 1891, initially as a nine-hole course designed by Willie Campbell from Bridge of Weir.{{Cite web|url=https://www.castlelachlan.com/activities|title=Activities|website=Castle Lachlan}} It was formerly an eighteen-hole course, reconstructed by James Braid between 1924 and 1928.{{cn|date=August 2024}} The current clubhouse was built in 1996. Due to financial issues, club assets were sold off in 2020.{{Cite web|url=https://www.novaloca.com/commercial-property-leisure/for-sale/kirn/20-44-ardenslate-road/176046|title=Cowal Golf Course and Clubhouse, 20-44 Ardenslate Road, Dunoon, Kirn, PA23 8LT|website=Novaloca.com}} The golf club is still trading, although as a result of a land sale the course is now only a twelve-hole course. The club is now owned by "Cowal Golf and Lodge Resort Ltd.{{Cite web|url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/14428395|title=COWAL GOLF AND LODGE RESORT LTD overview - Find and update company information - GOV.UK|website=find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk}}

The two bowling clubs in Dunoon are Dunoon–Argyll Bowling Club, on Mary Street, and Bogleha' Bowling Club, on Argyll Street. They are two of the 21 members of Bowls Scotland's District 26.{{Cite web |title=District 26 {{!}} Bowls Scotland 2024 |url=https://www.bowlsscotland.com/club-finder/districts/district-26 |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=www.bowlsscotland.com}}

In 2006 and 2007, the town hosted a six-a-side swamp football tournament that attracted around 500 players and 1,000 spectators.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/5136888.stm |title=Dunoon swamped by football fans |work=BBC News|date=1 July 2006 |access-date=11 December 2016}}{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6760245.stm |title='Swamp soccer' teams play dirty |work=BBC News|date=16 July 2007 |access-date=11 December 2016}}

Castle Tennis Club is situated in the town's Castle Garden. The club has two concrete and two all-weather courts, all lighted.

Every year in June, the town hosts the Argyll Rally, a motorsport event that takes place on closed public roads around the local area. The rally counts as a round of the Scottish Rally Championship and brings competitors from all over United Kingdom.{{cite web|url=http://argyllrally.co.uk/|title=Argyll Rally Homepage|publisher=Argyll Rally|access-date=9 February 2019}}

File:Dunoon, Tom Odhar-Bishops Glen Track - geograph.org.uk - 150118.jpg

Trails (walks, running and mountain biking) thread through the hills surrounding Dunoon. Corlarach Hill has waymarked routes for walkers, mountain biking and horse riders.{{cite web |url=https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/wood/?woodId=16085&woodName=corlarach-hill |title=Explore woods: Corlarach Hill |publisher=The Woodland Trust |access-date=11 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161124221443/https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/wood/?woodId=16085&woodName=corlarach-hill |archive-date=24 November 2016 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://scotland.forestry.gov.uk/forest-parks/argyll-forest-park/corlarach| title=Corlarach |publisher=Forestry Commission Scotland |access-date=11 December 2016}} These trails are located next to the Bishop's Glen.

Puck's Glen is a popular short walk set in the hills close to Benmore Botanic Garden. (The arboretum at Benmore Botanic Garden, formerly a private garden for the Younger family,{{Cite web|url=https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/dunoon/benmore/index.html/|title=Younger Family at Benmore|access-date=25 July 2020|archive-date=4 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210404134334/https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/dunoon/benmore/index.html|url-status=dead}} is now open to the public. It comprises {{convert|150|acre|ha|order=flip|sigfig=1}} and features some of the tallest trees in Britain, including the avenue of Giant Redwoods (Sequoia), some of which are over {{convert|120|ft|m|order=flip}} high.{{cite web |url=http://www.rbge.org.uk/the-gardens/benmore |title=Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh – Benmore Botanic Garden |website=Rbge.org.uk |date=8 March 2016 |access-date=22 November 2016 |archive-date=14 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090414124901/http://www.rbge.org.uk/the-gardens/benmore |url-status=dead }} One of Dunoon's listed buildings is the Grade 2 Victorian fernery, which was reopened in 2009 after an 18-month restoration.){{cite news |url=http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/gardens-benmore-botanic-garden-dunoon-argyll-1-471619 |title=Gardens: Benmore Botanic Garden, Dunoon, Argyll |work=The Scotsman |date=17 October 2009 |access-date=12 January 2017}} Part of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, the Garden is {{convert|7|mi|km|0|abbr=off}} north of the town, just before Loch Eck. A tumbling burn, criss-crossed by bridges, is enclosed by rocky walls heavily hung with mosses and overshadowed by dense trees. The walk has clear, waymarked paths. The glen is named after Puck, from A Midsummer Night's Dream.{{cite web|url=http://scotland.forestry.gov.uk/forest-parks/argyll-forest-park/pucks-glen |title=Puck's Glen |publisher=Government of the United Kingdom |access-date=22 November 2016}}

Morag's Fairy Glen is a short gorge walk, with trails alongside the Berry Burn, located on the hill behind the West Bay area of Dunoon.{{Cite web|url=https://www.visitscotland.com/info/towns-villages/morags-fairy-glen-p250171|title=Dunoon Visitor Guide - Accommodation, Things To Do & More|website=Visit Scotland}}{{cite web|url=https://explorecowal.com/2015/03/28/morags-fairy-glen-west-baydunoon/|title=Morag's Fairy Glen, West Bay,Dunoon.|date=28 March 2015}}{{Cite web |title=Morag's Fairy Glen |url=https://canmore.org.uk/site/348292/morags-fairy-glen |access-date=2021-05-31 |website=CANMORE national record of the historic environment |language=en}}

The Bishop's Glen Reservoir trail follows the shore of the remaining one of three reservoirs in the glen, that used to supply fresh water to Dunoon.{{Cite web |title=Dunoon Visitor Guide - Accommodation, Things To Do & More |url=https://www.visitscotland.com/info/towns-villages/the-bishops-glen-p250161 |website=Visit Scotland}} The reservoir is damming the Balgaidgh Burn (Balgie) and is now a freshwater fly fishing location.{{cite web|url=https://dunoonangling.com/reservoir/|title=..Dunoon Reservoir|date=19 March 2015}} Access to the hills behind Dunoon, including Corlarach Hill, is available from the Bishop's Glen Reservoir trail.

Dunoon's local weekly newspaper is the Dunoon Observer and Argyllshire Standard, which was founded in 1871 in Sandbank by editor and proprietor William Inglis Sr.{{cite web|url=http://www.dunoon-observer.com/index.php/history |title=History of the Dunoon Observer |publisher=Dunoon-observer.com |access-date=9 April 2012}}{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LzY-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=BksMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3652%2C3916702 | title=Centenery Issue |work=Evening Times |date=29 March 1971 |page=4 |access-date=24 March 2024}} (The town once had three other newspapers, namely the Cowal Watchman (1876),[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZrGM8n_uNOcC&dq=south+inch+pavilion+perth+scotland&pg=PA1308 Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland A Graphic and Accurate Description of Every Place in Scotland (1901)] - p. 1330 Dunoon Herald and Cowal Advertiser[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/751676473 The Dunoon Herald and Cowal Advertiser] at WorldCat.org and the Dunoon Telegraph.)[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/758982468 The Dunoon telegraph] at WorldCat.org

Dunoon Community Radio was launched in 2009.{{cite web|url=http://www.dunooncommunityradio.org/ |title=Dunoon, Cowal, Argyll, Scotland radio station, English and Gaelic programmes |publisher=Dunoon Community Radio |access-date=14 January 2012}} Broadcasting on 97.4 FM from the Dunoon Observer building, it is an independent social business entirely staffed by volunteers.

• Virginia Bottomley, politician{{cite web|url=https://www.majorcadailybulletin.com/news/local/2004/09/22/10137/double-act-for-conservatives-abroad.html|title=MP double act for Conservatives Abroad|date=22 September 2004|newspaper=Majorca Daily Bulletin|access-date=9 October 2022}}
• Robert Alexander Bryden, architect, educated in Dunoon{{cite web|url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=100275|title= Robert Alexander Bryden|publisher=Dictionary of Scottish Architects|access-date=9 October 2022}}
• Mary Campbell, love interest of Robert Burns
• MT Carney, businesswoman{{cite news|url=http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising/carney-arrives-um-ny-64938 |title=Carney Arrives At UM in N.Y. | work=Ad Week | date=2003-06-16}}
• Donald Caskie, minister, educated in Dunoon{{cite web |url= https://www.clan-macpherson.org/scripts/viewmemdata.pl?record=retired04_caskiebio1 |title=The Rev. Dr. Donald Currie Caskie, OBE, DD, MA, OCF |work=Clan Macpherson Association |year=2012 |access-date=25 November 2016}}
• Peter Dorschel, spy, tried for espionage in Dunoon{{cite news |newspaper=The Guardian |date=20 June 1967 |title=German for sentence in secrets case |page=3 |location=Manchester |id={{ProQuest|185247880}} }} {{subscription required}}
• William Fraser, architect, lived in Dunoon{{Cite web |title=Dunoon regeneration – Queens Hall Project |url=https://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/dunoon-regeneration-queens-hall-project |access-date=2020-08-27 |website=Argyll and Bute Council's website|date=8 July 2014 }}
• Stewart Houston, footballer, born in Dunoon{{cite web|url=https://www.mufcinfo.com/manupag/a-z_player_archive/a-z_player_archive_pages/houston_stewart.html|title=Stewart Mackie Houston|publisher=MUFC Info| access-date=9 October 2022}}
• Sir Harry Lauder (1870–1950), whose Laudervale mansion stood just south of Dunoon on Bullwood Road{{cite web|author=Phil Miller |url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/fly-me-to-dunoon-scottish-bid-for-de-niro-s-film-festival-1.1022542 |title=Fly me to Dunoon ... Scottish bid for de Niro's film festival |publisher=Herald Scotland |date=2010-04-23 |accessdate=2011-10-27}}
• Neil MacFarlane, footballer, born in Dunoon{{soccerbase|id=17096|name=Neil MacFarlane}}
• Mackintosh MacKay, minister in Dunoon and Gaelic scholar{{cite book |last=Scott |first=Hew |title=Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae; the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation |volume=4|page=[https://archive.org/details/fastiecclesiaesc04scot/page/24/mode/2up 24]|date=1923 |publisher=Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd |url=https://archive.org/details/fastiecclesiaesc04scot |author-link=Hew Scott}}{{PD-notice}}
• Sylvester McCoy, actor{{cite web |title=Sylvester McCoy |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba3c85b98 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160528093240/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba3c85b98 |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 May 2016 |website=BFI |access-date=9 January 2022 |language=en}}
• Alexander Robertson, boatbuilder operating from boatyard near Dunoon{{cite web|url=http://www.ayrshirehistory.org.uk/Shorts/southern-cross.htm|title=Largs to Brisbane – Tragic Voyage of the Southern Cross|publisher=Ayrshire History|first= David|last= Hutchison|date= 21 May 2013|access-date=9 October 2022}}
• George Robertson, politician, educated in Dunoon{{cite web|url=https://bff.org.uk/trustees/rt-hon-lord-robertson-kt-of-port-ellen/|title=Rt Hon Lord Robertson KT of Port Ellen KT GCMG|publisher=The British Forces Foundation| access-date=9 October 2022}}
• Arabella Scott, suffragette, born in Dunoon{{cite web|url=https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files/exhibitions/women-suffrage/arabella-charlotte-scott.html|title=Arabella Scott|publisher=National Records of Scotland| access-date=9 October 2022}}
• Muriel Scott, suffragette, family home was in Dunoon{{Cite book|last=Leneman|first=Leah|title=A Guid Cause: the women's suffrage movement in Scotland|publisher=Mercat Press|year=1995|isbn=|location=|pages=194–208}}
• John Smith, politician, educated in Dunoon{{cite web|url=https://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst297.html |title=John Smith|publisher= Gazetteer for Scotland|access-date=9 October 2022}}
• Neil Warnock, football manager{{cite web|website=BBC Sport|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67484554|title=Neil Warnock was close to Hearts job and wants to manage in Scotland|date=22 November 2023|access-date=23 November 2023}}
• Brian Wilson, politician{{cite book|author1=Bernard Ingham|author2=Gerry Hassan|title=The Political Guide to Modern Scotland: People, Places and Power|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c6SIAAAAMAAJ|access-date=30 December 2020|year=2003|publisher=Politico's|isbn=978-1-84275-048-3|pages=104–105}}

File:Dunoon Grammar School Hostel (geograph 5421634).jpg|Dunoon Grammar School Hostel

File:Entrance to Dunoon Grammar School - geograph.org.uk - 3086981.jpg|Entrance to Dunoon Grammar School

File:Northern Constabulary Pipe Band at Cowal Highland Games Dunoon Scotland (4949923566).jpg|Pipe band at the Cowal Highland Gathering

File:Dunoon from above the Firth of Clyde - geograph.org.uk - 1143850.jpg|Dunoon from above the Firth of Clyde, looking west

File:Dunoon Pier - panoramio.jpg|The eastern side of Dunoon Pier

File:Highland Mary - geograph.org.uk - 430101.jpg|Highland Mary statue

File:Dunoon Castle Gardens - geograph.org.uk - 725762.jpg|Castle House Gardens and war memorial, looking northeast to East Bay

File:The Gantocks from Dunoon - geograph.org.uk - 734466.jpg|The Gantocks from Dunoon, with Inverkip in the background to the east

File:Castle Hill Dunoon - geograph.org.uk - 995905.jpg|Castle Hill, looking west

File:Firth of Clyde, from West Bay, Dunoon, Cowal, Argyll and Bute.jpg|Firth of Clyde, from West Bay, Dunoon, Cowal, Argyll and Bute

Dunoon is on the west coast of the upper Firth of Clyde,{{cite web|url=http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/dunoon/dunoon/|title=Dunoon Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland|website=Undiscovered Scotland}} and on the east coast of the claw-shaped Cowal peninsula.

Much of the Cowal peninsula is covered with forest, particularly in the northern stretches and to the west and south with small patches in the south-east and east. To the north and north-west is the Argyll Forest Park that was established in 1935.{{cite web|url=https://scotland.forestry.gov.uk/forest-parks/argyll-forest-park|title=Argyll Forest Park|publisher=Forestry Commission Scotland|access-date=30 December 2020}}

As with the rest of the British Isles, Dunoon has a maritime climate with cool summers and mild winters. It is an exceptionally wet part of the country, particularly so for a place near sea-level, with annual average rainfall totals nearing {{convert|2400|mm|0|abbr=on}}.

Recorded temperature extremes since 1960 range from {{convert|29.6|C|F}} during July 1983{{cite web | publisher = Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute | url = http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/monitordetail.php?seasonid=13&year=1983&indexid=TXx&stationid=1874 | title = 1983 Maximum | access-date = 3 November 2011 | archive-date = 2 June 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120602142538/http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/monitordetail.php?seasonid=13&year=1983&indexid=TXx&stationid=1874 | url-status = dead }} to as low as {{convert|-13.9|C|F}} during January 1982.{{cite web | publisher = Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute | url = http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/monitordetail.php?seasonid=7&year=1982&indexid=TNn&stationid=1874 | title = 1982 Minimum | access-date = 3 November 2011 | archive-date = 2 June 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120602142544/http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/monitordetail.php?seasonid=7&year=1982&indexid=TNn&stationid=1874 | url-status = dead }}

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|location = Benmore Botanic Gardens 12m asl, 1971–2000, extremes 1960– (Weather station {{cvt|7|mi|0}} to the North of Dunoon)

|metric first = Yes

|single line = Yes

|Jan record high C = 14.4

|Feb record high C = 14.5

|Mar record high C = 17.2

|Apr record high C = 23.6

|May record high C = 27.0

|Jun record high C = 28.9

|Jul record high C = 29.6

|Aug record high C = 29.0

|Sep record high C = 25.1

|Oct record high C = 21.7

|Nov record high C = 16.5

|Dec record high C = 14.2

|year record high C = 29.6

|Jan high C = 6.5

|Feb high C = 6.8

|Mar high C = 8.6

|Apr high C = 11.4

|May high C = 14.9

|Jun high C = 16.8

|Jul high C = 18.4

|Aug high C = 18.0

|Sep high C = 15.3

|Oct high C = 12.2

|Nov high C = 8.9

|Dec high C = 7.2

|year high C = 12.1

|Jan low C = 1.0

|Feb low C = 1.3

|Mar low C = 2.2

|Apr low C = 3.4

|May low C = 5.8

|Jun low C = 8.5

|Jul low C = 10.7

|Aug low C = 10.4

|Sep low C = 8.6

|Oct low C = 6.1

|Nov low C = 2.9

|Dec low C = 1.7

|year low C =

|Jan record low C = −13.9

|Feb record low C = −11.1

|Mar record low C = −11.1

|Apr record low C = −4.4

|May record low C = −2.5

|Jun record low C = -0.6

|Jul record low C = 2.2

|Aug record low C = 2.6

|Sep record low C = -0.9

|Oct record low C = -4.1

|Nov record low C = −6.8

|Dec record low C = −11.5

|year record low C = −13.9

|Jan precipitation mm = 298.76

|Feb precipitation mm = 214.43

|Mar precipitation mm = 233.63

|Apr precipitation mm = 119.48

|May precipitation mm = 105.12

|Jun precipitation mm = 108.54

|Jul precipitation mm = 127.66

|Aug precipitation mm = 160.85

|Sep precipitation mm = 220.49

|Oct precipitation mm = 257.6

|Nov precipitation mm = 257.82

|Dec precipitation mm = 282.98

|year precipitation mm =

|source 1 = Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute{{cite web | url = http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/mapserver/climatology.php?indexcat=**&indexid=RR&periodidselect=1971-2000&seasonid=0&scalelogidselect=no&minx=-798809.523809&miny=-4222857.142857&maxx=67857.142858&maxy=-3572857.142857&MapSize=560%2C420&imagewidth=560&imageheight=420&mainmap.x=296&mainmap.y=201&CMD=QUERY_POINT&CMD=QUERY_POINT#bottom | title = Benmore averages | access-date = 3 November 2011 | publisher = KNMI | archive-date = 2 June 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120602142554/http://eca.knmi.nl/utils/mapserver/climatology.php?indexcat=**&indexid=RR&periodidselect=1971-2000&seasonid=0&scalelogidselect=no&minx=-798809.523809&miny=-4222857.142857&maxx=67857.142858&maxy=-3572857.142857&MapSize=560,420&imagewidth=560&imageheight=420&mainmap.x=296&mainmap.y=201&CMD=QUERY_POINT&CMD=QUERY_POINT#bottom | url-status = dead }}

|date=November 2011}}

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