Gate Castle
| Gate Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | 11th century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Scottish nobility | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Fort William | |
| Geographical location | 56 ° 51 '40 " N , 5 ° 3' 54" W | |
| Height: | 15 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Tor Castle is the ruin of a low castle near Torlundy on the River Lochy near Fort William in the Scottish county of Inverness-shire , today part of the Highland administrative unit .
history
A fort from the Iron Age could be found here earlier. According to a legend, the fort once belonged to the Scottish military leader Banquo , who appears in Shakespeare's drama Macbeth .
There has been a castle there since the 11th century at the latest. Later it belonged to the Mackintosh clan , until the Cameron clan conquered it and had a massive tower house with a courtyard built there. Ewen Cameron of Lochiel , 13th clan chief of the Camerons, had the castle rebuilt in 1530. The Camerons used the castle as protection from the attacks of the Clan McDonald of Keppoch .
Today the ruin is a Scheduled Monument .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Martin Coventry: Castles of the Clans: The Strongholds and Seats of 750 Scottish Families and Clans . 2008. ISBN 978-1-899874-36-1 . P. 75.
- ↑ Tor Castle . In: Canmore . Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
- ↑ Scheduled Monument - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
