Publication drawing. Castle Sween; sections.
SC 360786
Description Publication drawing. Castle Sween; sections.
Date 1990
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 360786
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of DC 24579
Scope and Content Sections through Castle Sween, Knapdale, Argyll Castle Sween, Scotland's oldest standing castle, was built to defend Knapdale in the 12th century and modified in the 14th and 15th centuries. Garrisoned for the Parliament in 1640s, it was captured and burnt by Royalists and then abandoned. Changes in the curtain wall's stonework suggest it was heightened after 1200 when the first west wing was built. Traditionally, the north-east tower was built by Alexander MacMillan who held Sween for the MacDonalds after 1473. The Lordship of Knapdale was lost by the MacSweens to Walter Stewart Earl of Menteith in 1262, then inherited by Robert II. In 1376 he granted most of it to the MacDonald Lords of the Isles who, in 1475, lost it by forfeiture to the Campbell Earls of Argy Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference Inv. fig. 248
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