Ground Floor Plan of Skipness Castle showing building phases u.s. u.d.
SC 360533
Description Ground Floor Plan of Skipness Castle showing building phases u.s. u.d.
Catalogue Number SC 360533
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of AGD 81/16
Scope and Content Ground-floor plan showing position of earliest buildings 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. Originally a stockade protected a chapel and domestic buildings, probably a stone chamber-block (here marked 'hall-house') with a now-lost single-storey hall. The curtain wall was built c.1300, when the chapel was absorbed and domestic buildings added. 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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