Plans of First Floor, Second Floor of West Tower and Second Floor of North Tower Lorn Inv. fig. 181
SC 360104
Description Plans of First Floor, Second Floor of West Tower and Second Floor of North Tower Lorn Inv. fig. 181
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 360104
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of AGD 9/11
Scope and Content First-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 layout of the curtain-walls have not changed since they were built. However, of the internal buildings, only the late 16th-century dwelling-house and gatehouse apartments have survived. The east range probably contained a first-floor hall. Before 1250, castles usually had a wooden hall for feasts and public occasions, and a separate two-storeyed stone chamber-block for the lord's family. After 1250, it became fashionable to build the two side-by-side in a single block. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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