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CASTLES, TOWER-HOUSES AND FORTIFICATIONS

Fig.163. Castle, Island Muller (No 310); plan
diagram/drawing of castle layout

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MacDonald of Dunnyveg, imprisoned his father at
Smerby in 1597. 1

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311, Kilkerran Castle. The scanty remains of this castle
stand in a cottage garden opposite Kilkerran Churchyard
and close to the shores of Campbeltown Loch . The ruins
are incorporated in later out-buildings and garden-walls
pertaining to the cottage, and their identification is made
more difficult by the thick growth of ivy that now covers
them. The principal surviving fragment of the castle
comprises a section of rubble-built wall some 6m in
length and 6m in height, which runs roughly N. and S.
From the N. end of this wall a second section returns
westwards for a distance of 1.2m before giving way to a
later wall running upon a similar alignment. The thick-
ness of the castle walls could not be measured accurately
at thr date of visit, but does not appear to exceed 0.9m.

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This castle seems to have been erected by James IV in,
or shortly before, 1498, and is referred to as "novum
castrum de Kilkerane" in a royal charter of that year. 2
The castle was again garrisoned by the Crown during
James V's expedition to the west in 1536, 3 and was
probably still habitable in the second decade of the 17th
century. 4

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312. Old Largie Castle (Site). When the officers of the
Ordanace Survey visited this site about the year 1868
they reported that "only a small portion of the side wall"
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1 Origines Parochiales, ii, part I, 20; Pitcairn, Trials, iii, 6 f.;
Highland Papers, iii, 73, 80; MacDonald, Clan Donald, ii,
564.
2 RMS, ii(1424-1513), no.2424.
3 Stat,Acct., x (1794), 531 f.
4 Geog.Coll., ii, 187.

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