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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOCH DOON CASTLE (in ruins) | Loch Doon Castle (in ruins) Loch Doon Castle (in ruins) Castle of Loch Doon Castle |
James Sloan Andrew Murdoch Nich. Hist. Gall. Vol. 1 [Nicholson's History of Galloway Volume 1] appendix P. [Page] 18 Ainslies' map |
004 | [Situation] In the central part of Castle Island. The ruins of an old Castle or Stronghold Supposed to have been built some time in the 13th. Century, situated on a rocky Island in Loch Doon. It is built in a figure (not regular) of a 11 sides, averaging about 66 feet in diameter, and its walls about 6ft. [feet] in thickness and standing pretty entire about two stories in height, from its situation, it must have been a place of great strength and inpregnable before the use of gunpowder was known. It is said in Nicholson's Hist. [History] of Galloway Vol. [Volume] 1 (Appendix) P. [Page] 17, that, It belonged to the Lords of Carrick, the Ancestors of King Robert the Bruce. And in the Tytler's History of Scotland rendered essential service to the King, took refuge in his own Castle of Loch Doon; but it was pusillanimously given up to the English by Sir Gilbert de Corrie the hereditary keeper thereof.' "Tradition States, that when the English in 1319 beseiged the Castle of Loch Doon, being unable to take it by Storm, they raised an embankment of earth and stone, lined with raw hides to prevent the water from oozing through the rampart, across the place where the lake discharges itself; hoping thereby to inundate the Castle. The work was finished; and the water rising rapidly. One of the Soldiers named McNab Volunteered to destroy the caul or rampart and being a good swimmer, he took the water at midnight, with a large bonnet sword [Continued on Page 26] |
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