View from West.

Description View from West.

Date 1984

Catalogue Number SC 769819

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of AG 14429

Scope and Content Duntrune Castle, Argyll & Bute, from west This shows the large battlemented wall which encloses the courtyard with the roof of the kitchen wing immediately behind and the main castle in the right background. The small battlemented wall on the left protects the open area in front of the castle. The castle is of a typical tower-house type, built at a time when it was more important to impress rather than defend which was the main purpose of earlier tower-houses. The flight of rubble steps to the left of the tree leads to a 20-paned French window which gives access to the kitchen wing immediately behind the wall. This entrance may have been used by family and guests to access the lochside or by servants bringing fish caught in the loch into the castle. 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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