. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. st angles remain. The site is surrounded on three sides bythe sea, and on the fourth is cut off from a neck of land which rises about * We have to thank J. W. Burns, Esq., of Kilmahew, for the following particularsand measurements. LITTLE CUMBRAE CASTLE, ETC. — 173 — THIRD PERIOD 20 feet above the tide. The walls are built close to the edge of the rock,and the portions remaining are still of some height (35 to 40 feet), andcontain windows about 2 feet square, with wide square recesses internall
. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. st angles remain. The site is surrounded on three sides bythe sea, and on the fourth is cut off from a neck of land which rises about * We have to thank J. W. Burns, Esq., of Kilmahew, for the following particularsand measurements. LITTLE CUMBRAE CASTLE, ETC. — 173 — THIRD PERIOD 20 feet above the tide. The walls are built close to the edge of the rock,and the portions remaining are still of some height (35 to 40 feet), andcontain windows about 2 feet square, with wide square recesses internallyarched over. There are no signs of vaulting or rests for beams, but thetower has been at least three stories in height. From its style it probablybelongs to the fifteenth century. CRAIGNISH CASTLE,* Argyllshire. This was originally a simple keep (Fig, 111), 41 feet 9 inches long by33 feet 6 inches wide, with walls 7 feet 6 inches thick, but has now beenmuch altered, and forms part of a modern mansion. The ground floor isvaulted. It stands on a detached rock on the west coast of Argyllshire,. Fig. 111.—Craignish Castle. Plan. northwards from the Crinan Canal. It belonged to the MacdougalCampbells of Craignish, a branch of the Campbells of Lochaw. Thecharacter of the work seems to place this building in the same categorywith Castle Maoil and other simple keeps in the West. LITTLE CUMBRAE CASTLE, Buteshire ; FAIRLIE CASTLE,LAW CASTLE, and SKELMORLIE CASTLE, Ayrshire. These simple towers are all situated in the same locality, round theentrance to the Frith of Clyde, and have such a striking resemblance toeach other, both in their internal arrangements and external aspect, thatthey will be best described together. The plan of each is an oblong,which at Cumbrae (Fig. 112) and Law (Fig. 113) is of the same length,viz., 41 feet 3 inches, and at Fairlie (Fig. 114), 45 feet 5 inches, while * We have to thank Mr. James Edgar, Ri Cruin, Lochgilphead, for particularsof this castle, a
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