Faslane Castle
| Faslane Castle | ||
|---|---|---|
| Creation time : | 12th Century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg (Motte) | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Standing position : | Scottish nobility | |
| Place: | Faslane-on-Clyde | |
| Geographical location | 56 ° 4 '2.8 " N , 4 ° 48' 56.1" W | |
| Height: | 13 m ASL | |
|
||
Faslane Castle is an abandoned castle near Faslane-on-Clyde in the Scottish county of Dunbartonshire (now part of the Argyll and Bute administrative division ). The site is above the Gare Loch . Today it is dominated by the Clyde Naval Base .
In the Middle Ages , Dunbartonshire belonged to the Mormaers of Lennox . At the beginning of the 13th century, Ailín II from Morma bequeathed an extensive piece of land east of the Gare Loch to one of his younger sons, Amhlaíbh . From Amhlaíbh comes Walter of Faslane ; he was a great-grandson of Ailín II. After the death of Mormaer Domhnall , Walter of Faslane became the representative of the male line of the Lennox family. With the marriage to Margaret , daughter of Domhnall, Walter of Faslane became Mormaer himself.
The castle is said to date back to the 12th century , according to 19th century historian William Fraser . A twenty-first century Medievalist , Geoffrey Stell , compiled a list of moths in Scotland and listed only four of them for Dunbartonshire, one of which is Faslane Castle. According to Fraser, the castle was often inhabited by the Earl of Lennox and his family members.
|
Than to Faslan the worthy Scottis can pass , |
| - Blind Harry , The Wallace |
Faslane Castle appears in an epic 15th century poem called The Wallace , created by Blind Harry . The story goes that Wallace sacked the town of Dumbarton and ravaged the castle of Rosneath Castle - the modern village of Rosneath is on the other side of Gare Loch. Then he moved on across the lake to Faslane Castle, where he was welcomed by the Mormaer Maol Choluim I.
In 1543 Matthew Stewart, 2nd Earl of Lennox bequeathed Faslane Castle to Adam Colquhoun . In 1567 the Campbells of Ardkinlass acquired the castle along with Garelochhead and sold it back to the Campbells of Carrick before 1583 . In 1693 the castle was in the hands of Sir John Colquhoun from Luss , who lent it to Archibald MacAulay from Ardincaple . According to 19th century historian Joseph Irving , the ruined Faslane Castle was "a shelter for the last representative of a once powerful family" - the last chief of the MacAulays of Ardincaple - in the mid-18th century .
Fraser reported in 1869 that no buildings or any other part of the castle were visible. The only remnant of the castle is a green mound above the point where two deep ravines meet, between two small watercourses whose banks are steep. William Charles Maughan stated that in his day the castle grounds could be recognized “through a small mound near the murmuring stream that flows into the bay”. Maughan also wrote that in Faslane there is an oak in a place called Cnoch-na-Cullah in Scottish Gaelic (English: Gockelhügel), according to the legend that a rooster crows under the branches of the old oak on the hill a member of the MacAulay clan would soon die.
It is written that Faslane Castle was destroyed when the West Highland Railway was built over it in 1891-1894.
Individual references and comments
- ^ William Fraser: The Chiefs of Colquhoun and their Country . T. & A. Constable. Pp. 102-106. 1869. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
- ^ Robert Liddiard: Anglo-Norman Castles . Boydell Press, Woodbridge 2003. ISBN 0-85115-904-4 . Pp. 235-243.
- ^ A b c William Fraser: The Chiefs of Colquhoun and their Country . T. & A. Constable. Pp. 106-107. 1869. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
- ↑ James Moir: The Actis and Deidis of the Illustere and Vailyeand Campioun Schir William Wallace, Knicht of Ellerslie . William Blackwood and Sons. P. 282, 1889. Retrieved July 12, 2017.
- ↑ Joseph Irving: The Book of Dumbartonshire, Volume 1 . W. and AK Johnston. Pp. 71-72. 1879. Retrieved July 12, 2017.
- ^ Joseph Irving: The Book of Dumbartonshire, Volume 2 . W. and AK Johnston. P. 290, 1879. Retrieved July 12, 2017.
- ↑ Faslane Castle . In: Canmore . Royal Commission for the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved July 12, 2017.
- ^ William Charles Maughan: Annals of Garelochside, being an account historical and topographical of the parishes of Row, Rosneath and Cardross . A. Gardner. P. 54, 1897. Retrieved July 12, 2017.
- ^ William Charles Maughan: Annals of Garelochside, being an account historical and topographical of the parishes of Row, Rosneath and Cardross . A. Gardner. P. 92, 1897. Retrieved July 12, 2017.
- ↑ Maughan wrote: “A long way from the house, near the coast, there is an old oak tree, under whose branches, according to legend, the crowing of a rooster announced the death of a MacAulay. The name of this place, Cnoch-na-Cullah or Knoll of the Cock seems to fit this legend. "
- ^ Alistair McIntyre: Castles . In: www.rosneathpeninsula.org.uk . Archived from the original on March 19, 2009. Retrieved July 12, 2017.