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Ballumbie, Dundee — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Ballumbie is a Dundee district known through four listed names: Ballumbie Castle, Ballumbie House, Pitkerro House and Duntrune House.
About Ballumbie
Where to stay in Ballumbie
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Ballumbie Road is the address the record gives, and Ballumbie House stands on it, with Ballumbie Castle, Pitkerro House and Duntrune House the other three fixed points in the district. Duntrune House is the outlier name. Pitkerro House and Duntrune House sit alongside it in the same short listing, which is the whole of what a guest walking out from a Ballumbie Road address will find named on the map.
If you want Dundee at arm's length and a castle name on the door, this is the corner to book; anything busier means going into the city.
About Ballumbie
What are the main landmarks in Ballumbie?
The list runs to four names. Ballumbie House takes its address from Ballumbie Road, Ballumbie Castle shares the same root, and Pitkerro House and Duntrune House carry names from outside that root entirely. There is no church on the list.
The four stand as houses and a castle, which is the whole of what the record fixes to Ballumbie in Dundee.
What is the history of Ballumbie?
Ballumbie's past sits in its buildings rather than in any written account, which leaves Ballumbie Castle, Ballumbie House on Ballumbie Road, Pitkerro House and Duntrune House to stand for it. Dundee names no year of origin. The castle and the house share the Ballumbie name, and the repetition of that root across a castle, a house and a road is the clearest thing the record says about how long the name has been in use here.
Pitkerro House and Duntrune House keep separate names of their own, unattached to Ballumbie and to any year the listing supplies.
Where is Ballumbie?
Ballumbie Road carries the address of Ballumbie House, and Ballumbie Castle, Pitkerro House and Duntrune House stand in the same corner of Dundee.
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Updated September 2026