young man in traditional scottish kilt with bagpipe in front of Eilean Donan Castle in Scotland

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The castle was founded in the thirteenth century, and became a stronghold of the Clan Mackenzie and their allies the Clan Macrae. In the early eighteenth century, the Mackenzies' involvement in the Jacobite rebellions led in 1719 to the castle's destruction by government ships. Lieutenant-Colonel John Macrae-Gilstrap's twentieth-century reconstruction of the ruins produced the present buildings

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Location: scotland
Photo credit: © Milena Boeva / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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