Finlarig Castle
Finlarig Castle is a castle ruin in Scotland Perthshire . It is located 800 m north of Killin on a hill on a peninsula between the Lochay and Loch Tay . The Tower House was built around 1629 by 'Black' Duncan Campbell ( Donnchadh Dubh ) from Glenorchy according to the "Z-Plan". The central living area is flanked by two towers in the north-east and south-west, the complex was four stories high. A rampart, now almost completely in ruins, surrounded the castle. It was one of many fortifications made by the Campbells at Breadalbane in Argyll and Perthshire. The castle was visited by Rob Roy MacGregor in 1713 .
Close to the castle are the ruins of the Breadalbane Mausoleum, a chapel that was built in 1829 in the pseudo- Tudor style . There are graves, among others from 1523, of an ancestor of the Counts of Breadalbane, Sir Colin Campbell. This branch of the Campbell clan became the Earls of Breadalbane.
There is a quarry near the north wall of the complex, where, according to legend, prisoners of noble blood were beheaded. Bourgeois and lowly people were hanged at a nearby oak tree.
The ruin is in great danger of collapsing and is therefore not accessible to the public.
literature
- Martin Coventry, The Castles of Scotland (4th Edition) . Polygon, Goblinshead, 2006.
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Coordinates: 56 ° 28 ′ 29.8 " N , 4 ° 18 ′ 53.6" W.