Doune's postal address places the town in Perthshire which is also its Registration County, although administratively Doune is under the control of Stirling Council.
The impressive station building at Doune was demolished in 1968 (although the former station master's house survives) and the site is now occupied by housing, as is the site of the original station in Callander.
Kilmadock parish (Scottish Gaelic Cille Mo Dog), containing the settlements of Doune, Deanston, Buchany, Drumvaich, and Delvorich, is situated in Stirling council area, Scotland, and is on the southern border of the former county of Perthshire.
His wife Isabella was captured in the family's fortified castle of Doune, their favourite residence, and committed to Tantallon Castle.
The SS Olympia was a steamship laid down as the SS Doune Castle and upon purchase named the SS Dunbar Castle that served the northwest United States and Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush.