Ground Floor Plan showing layout and development of Dunstaffnage Castle Lorn. Inv. fig. 180

Description Ground Floor Plan showing layout and development of Dunstaffnage Castle Lorn. Inv. fig. 180

Date c. 1975

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

Catalogue Number AGD 9/10

Category Prints and Drawings

Copies SC 360099, AGD 9/10 P

Scope and Content Ground-floor plan of Dunstaffnage Castle, at the mouth of Loch Etive, Argyll Dunstaffnage Castle was built before 1275 by the MacDougalls of Lorn who lost it in 1309. It passed to the Campbell Earls of Argyll in the 1320s. It was a government base in 1745, and, in 1746, Flora MacDonald's temporary prison. The curtain-walls were laid out to make the most of the rocky outcrop which forms the base of the castle. The forestair leading to the entrance is probably 19th-century and replaces an earlier ramp and drawbridge. At the start of the Wars of Independence, Alexander and John MacDougall of Lorn fought for the Scots, so as to feud with the English-backed MacDonald Lords of the Isles. They permanently switched sides when Robert Bruce murdered their kinsman, Red Comyn. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Scale 1":8'

Medium Ink

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