Invergarry Castle
| Invergarry Castle | ||
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 Invergarry Castle 1994 |
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| Creation time : | after 1602 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg (Tower House) | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Scottish nobility | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Invergarry | |
| Geographical location | 57 ° 3 '56.4 " N , 4 ° 46' 50.8" W | |
| Height: | 49 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Invergarry Castle is a ruined castle near the village of Invergarry on Loch Oich in the Highland administrative district of Scotland . The castle was the seat of the clan chief of the MacDonnells of Glengarry, a powerful branch of the MacDonald clan .
The location of the castle on Creagan an Fhithich (English: Raven's Rock ) in the Great Glen was strategically favorable in the days of the Clan Wars. It is not known when the first building was erected on Creagan an Fhithich , but there were at least two fortresses before the present one.
description
The Tower House with an L-shaped floor plan had a round tower on the northeast corner. The main building had five floors and the tower had six. The main building covers an area of 16.7 meters × 9.7 meters. The knight's hall on the 1st floor had an area of 13.4 meters × 6.1 meters. The main entrance was in the north facade of the wing. This entrance can be monitored through loopholes and there are further loopholes under the staircase and in the walls of the tower.
history
After the raids of Clan Mackenzie in 1602, during which Strome Castle was burned down, the MacDonnells of Glengarry fortified the Creagan at Fhithich . The result was an imposing, six-story tower house with an L-shaped floor plan. According to the clan tradition, the castle was built from stones that had been passed from hand to hand in a chain of clan members from Mount Ben Tee .
In 1654, during the English Civil War , Oliver Cromwell's troops burned the castle down. It was then repaired and from 1688 it was in the hands of King James VII of Scotland . In 1692 the garrison surrendered to the government troops of King Wilhelm III. and Queen Maria II.
During the 1715 uprising it was in the hands of the Jacobites , but was taken by government troops in 1716. During the 1745 uprising, it was again in the hands of the Jacobites. Bonnie Prince Charlie visited them shortly after the royal standard was hoisted in Glenfinnan and is said to have camped there after his defeat at the Battle of Culloden in 1746 . As a result of this battle, the castle was looted and partially blown up by troops led by the Duke of Cumberland as part of a systematic suppression of the Highlands. But the strong walls simply did not give in and have been preserved to this day as witnesses to their history.
The Glengarry estate was sold by Aeneas Ranaldson McDonnell of Glengarry , son of Alexander Ranaldson McDonnell of Glengarry (1771-1828), when he came of age. But he kept Invergarry Castle, Invergarry House, the "Well of Heads" and the old clan cemetery. They fell to Aeneas' daughter and from her to the Erskine Cuninghame of Balgowie and Corrie family . She handed this over to the National Trust for Scotland in 1960 .
In 1960 Invergarry House opened as the Glengarry Castle Hotel . It stands in an enviable position over Loch Oich, and the ruins of Invergarry Castle are an added attraction on the property.
Invergarry Castle is a Scheduled Monument .
Invergarry Castle 2009, after the restoration and stabilization work
Aerial photo 2019
Top view 2019
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Norman H. McDonald: The Clan Ranald of Knoydart and Glengarry . FSA Scot., Dryden Printing Company, 1979.
- ^ David MacGibbon, Thomas Ross: The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . D. Douglas. 1887. Retrieved September 15, 2017.
- ↑ Glengarry Castle Hotel website. Retrieved September 15, 2017.
- ↑ Scheduled Monument - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
