. Renaissance of the clan Maclean. Comprising also a history of Dubhaird Caisteal and the Great Gathering on August 24, 1912. Together with an appendix, containing letters of Gen'l Allan Maclean, narrative of an American party, a MacLean bibliography. [With plates, including portraits.]. n his reply he stated he would make no decision,but left the whole question to me. I was therefore constrainedto write the word Duard, as being the most euphonious and ap-propriate from the standpoint of etymology. Usage does notnecessarily become authoritative. The castle is located on the point of a peninsul
. Renaissance of the clan Maclean. Comprising also a history of Dubhaird Caisteal and the Great Gathering on August 24, 1912. Together with an appendix, containing letters of Gen'l Allan Maclean, narrative of an American party, a MacLean bibliography. [With plates, including portraits.]. n his reply he stated he would make no decision,but left the whole question to me. I was therefore constrainedto write the word Duard, as being the most euphonious and ap-propriate from the standpoint of etymology. Usage does notnecessarily become authoritative. The castle is located on the point of a peninsula that formsthe extreme north-eastern part of the isle of Mull, and, wherethe Sound of Mull is separated from Loch Linnhe. Originallythe castle consisted of a single tower, composed of three stories,about fifty feet in height. The tower, or older part correspondsto the architecture of the thirteenth century. Its walls on twosides are fourteen feet thick, and the other sides ten, the interiorbeing forty-four by twenty--two feet. The stairway, still entire,winds up through the wall which separates it from the centersquare or courtyard. In the wall, along the course of the stair,are crenelles opening into the outer court or square. The tiers, (29) 30 Renaissance of the Clan Renaissance of the Clan MagLean. 31 or stories, or apartments were supported by beams resting uponcorbels. The windows are deep recesses, forming acute anglestowards the entrance of the light, and on either side of the win-dow is a long flat stone, resting upon rubble work, raised to theheight of the seat of an ordinary chair. The windows on theground floor have the deep round arched recesses. The top ofthe wall had a battlementand crenelated parapet, and there areindications of corbelled bartizans at the angles. The doorwayfaced the east, at the northern wall, and was strengthened by asliding bar. Dr. John J. Burnett, Architect in charge of the restorationof the Castle, and who drew the four plans of
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