Smerby Castle
| Smerby Castle | ||
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 Island Muller |
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| Alternative name (s): | Island Muller Castle | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg (Tower House) | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Scottish nobility | |
| Place: | Campbeltown | |
| Geographical location | 55 ° 26 '11.8 " N , 5 ° 33' 14" W | |
| Height: | 10 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Smerby Castle , also Island Muller Castle , is the ruin of a fortress house on a headland called Isla Muller on the Kintyre peninsula , north of Campbeltown in the Scottish administrative unit Argyll and Bute . The site is a Scheduled Monument .
history
Nothing is known about the building history of Smerby Castle.
16th Century
Ranald MacDonald received Smerby Castle from his father, James MacDonald, 6th of Dunnyveg .
Angus MacDonald, 8th of Dunnyveg , was imprisoned in 1598 in chains there after Sir James MacDonald, 9th of Dunnyveg , had been sent to the submission of his father, King V. Jacob to worry. Angus MacDonald suffered burn injuries after his son James' house, Askomill House , burned to the ground and was subsequently arrested.
description
The Tower House had a rectangular floor plan measuring 13.3 meters by 12 meters. The side walls were 2.8 meters thick, the gable walls 2.6 meters. The recess in the west wall could mark the entrance of the house, an arch in the middle of the south wall the location of the latrine attached to the outside . A small, grass-covered wall that partially encloses the Tower House could represent the remains of a contemporary or earlier earth wall.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Island Muller . In: Canmore . Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
- ↑ a b c d Scheduled Monument - entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ^ Angus Macdonald, Archibald Macdonald: The Clan Donald . The Northern Counties Publishing Company. 1900. Retrieved February 1, 2018.