Kilchurn Castle - Loch Awe by ejn
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Description
Standing on the north east end of Loch Awe Kilchurn Castle is a 15th century castle now in ruin.
The castle was a Campbell stronghold but it is considered to have been built on an earlier site site of McGregor of Glenstrae.
It became a government stronghold during the Jacobean times but was previously held by the Campbell's for four hundred years.
With the pacification of the Highland Clans and the dispersal of the McGregor's the Castle outlived its usefulness. Lord Glenorchy became the Duke of Breadalbane as the Campbell's power and wealth grew and the family moved to Taymouth Castle in Perthshire.
The Castle was abandoned completely at the end of the 18th Century and then had the misfortune to be burnt out after a "lightning strike"
Although now a ruin it setting is almost a fairy tale vision of Scottish castles
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amanda_a42
Awesome capture!