. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. 9 — FIRST PERIOD The wall along the east side, both of the courtyard and castle, is con-siderably thinner than the other walls, and has probably been rebuiltat a late date. The entrance from the courtyard to the castle itself is,as usual, small, being only 3 feet wide, and is provided with a bar-holein the wall. This doorway is at the height of a story above the levelof the ground within the castle, and there seems to have been a platformleading round the west side from the entrance to the door
. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. 9 — FIRST PERIOD The wall along the east side, both of the courtyard and castle, is con-siderably thinner than the other walls, and has probably been rebuiltat a late date. The entrance from the courtyard to the castle itself is,as usual, small, being only 3 feet wide, and is provided with a bar-holein the wall. This doorway is at the height of a story above the levelof the ground within the castle, and there seems to have been a platformleading round the west side from the entrance to the door into thehabitable buildings, which lie along the south side of the of this platform is still in existence, giving access by an openstaircase to the battlements, and also to an apartment with a largefireplace, which was probably the hall. The rest of the buildings atthis point are too ruinous to be distinguishable; but possibly the hallextended as far as the cross-wall shown on Plaii (unshaded, as it scarcelyrises above the level of the floor). The private room possibly extended. Fig. 44.—Ardclionnel Castle. View from South-East. beyond this, with a small inner apartment in the angle tower. Thefireplace at the west end may thus have served for both kitchen andhall; or the kitchen may have been screened ofi from the hall witha partition at the dotted line, where there is a break in the levelof the floor. Beneath this story there is a range of vaulted cellarsentering from the level of the inner courtyard. The block of buildingnext the entrance from the outer courtyard does not appear to be very the first floor of this structure access is got by a very narrow passagein the wall to the square turret at the north-east angle of the main the end of the fifteenth century, while this castle was stilloccupied by the Earl of A rgyll, it became the prison of the infant heirof the Lordship of the Isles. This child was the son of Angus, who hadrebel
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