DUNOON, police burgh and parish (with Kilmun), Argyll shire, Scotland, on the west shore of the Firth of Clyde, opposite to Gourock. Pop. (1931) 8,780. ('These figures are increased in the holiday season.) Including Kirn and Hunter's Quay, it presents a practically continuous front of seaside villas, with an esplanade two miles long. The mildness of its climate and the beauty of its situation have made it one of the most prosperous watering-places on the west coast. On a conical hill above the pier stand the remains of Dunoon Castle, the hereditary keepership of which was conferred by Robert Bruce on the family of Sir Colin Campbell of Loch Awe, an ancestor of the duke of Argyll. It was visited by Queen Mary in 1563, and in 1643 was the scene of the massacre of the Lamonts by the Campbells. The grounds have been laid out as a recreation garden. The town itself is modern, having been a mere fishing village at the beginning of the 19th century. There is frequent communication daily by steamer with Glasgow. Hunter's Quay is the yachting headquar ters, the Royal Clyde Yacht club's house adjoining the pier. Kil mun, on the northern shore of Holy loch, a portion of the parish of Dunoon and Kilmun, contains the ruins of a Collegiate chapel founded in 1442 by Sir Duncan Campbell of Loch Awe and used as the burial-ground of the Argyll family.