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Interior-detail of blocked window of old chapel on South curtain wall

SC 359274

Description Interior-detail of blocked window of old chapel on South curtain wall

Date 1965

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 359274

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of AG 732

Scope and Content South-east corner of courtyard of Skipness Castle, Knapdale, Argyll In 1261, Skipness Castle belonged to the MacSweens of Knapdale, vassals of the Lords of the Isles. In 1262, they were forced to grant Knapdale to the king's ally, Walter Stewart, Earl of Menteith. They subsequently became Irish landowners and mercenaries. This is one of the four blocked windows originally belonging to the MacSween chapel. Each is a narrower version of the windows in the chamber-block (or hall-house). Until the Scots victory at Largs in 1266, the MacDonald Lords of the Isles supported their overlord, the King of Norway, in his struggle not to lose the Western Isles to the King of Scots. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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