Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 567100
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/567100
Caisteal nan Con (Castle of the Hounds - formerly known as Dungaul), c.1670 Rectangular ruin surmounting the knuckle of a small promontory, the site of an Iron Age fort. Bearing no evidence of a pre-17th-century date, it appears to have been a three-storeyed hall house rather than a defensive tower, built, it is said, by Allan Maclean, tacksman of Killundine. Only the south gable rises still to full height. Beside the off-centred entrance on the west wall projected a bowed stairtower (only the lower portions survive), giving access to living quarters at the south end - a room with a fireplace on each floor. Typically, most of the ground floor was unheated and used for storage. The building is believed to have been abandoned soon after a government man-of-war attacked Jacobite rebels garrisoned here in 1719.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
