Duntrune Castle View from NE Digital image of AG/14433

Description Duntrune Castle View from NE Digital image of AG/14433

Date 1984

Catalogue Number SC 769816

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of AG 14433

Scope and Content Duntrune Castle from north-east, Argyll & Bute This shows the open area in front of the castle where carriages dropped and collected the family and guests. The cobbled and flagstone path behind the lower battlemented wall leads to a narrow entrance in the large courtyard wall. The two-storeyed and attic L-plan castle is rubble-built with crowstepped gables and sloping dormers. The castle is a fine example of a tower-house built more for show than defensive purposes. The small building to the right of the castle was probably used to store fishing equipment and may have been converted into a small summerhouse by the family in the 20th century. Immediately behind the castle is a causeway which leads to a pier on a small island which was probably used by the family to moor boats for pleasure cruises or fishing trips around the loch. Duntrune Castle was built c.1600 on the shores of Loch Crinan and incorporates parts of an earlier structure. The building was renovated by the Malcolms of Poltalloch in c.1796, and Joseph G Davis undertook repairs and alterations to the castle between 1833 and 1835. The Malcolm family moved to the newly-built Poltalloch House in 1853 but returned to Duntrune in c.1953 when it was restored. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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