. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. 1715,the castle was held by a body of Spaniards under Wm. Mackenzie, Earlof Seaforth, when it was battered and ruined by three English men-of-war. The situation of the castle is very fine, but unfortunately its archi-tectural features are almost entirely destroyed. The outline of the ELLANDONAN CASTLE — 83 FIRST PERIOD enceinte, which has been of a quadrilateral form (Fig. 38), can, however,still be traced, and some portions of the enclosing wall are yet the west side a narrow passa
. The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. 1715,the castle was held by a body of Spaniards under Wm. Mackenzie, Earlof Seaforth, when it was battered and ruined by three English men-of-war. The situation of the castle is very fine, but unfortunately its archi-tectural features are almost entirely destroyed. The outline of the ELLANDONAN CASTLE — 83 FIRST PERIOD enceinte, which has been of a quadrilateral form (Fig. 38), can, however,still be traced, and some portions of the enclosing wall are yet the west side a narrow passage between two walls seems to haveformed the entrance from the lake. It then, doubtless, contained asteep staircase leading from the landing-place to the courtyard above,but it is now only a slope of loose stones. The keep occupied the north-east angle of the enclosure. Like thekeeps of several of the other Western castles it was probably erected in thefourteenth century; its north and east walls seem to have been raisedupon the older wall of enceinte (Fig. 39). It was a rectangular structure. Fig. 3S.—Ellandonan Castle. Plan. 57 feet long by 43 feet wide, with walls about 10 feet in thickness. Thefoundations exist all romid, and fragments of the north and south walls arestanding of considerable height, but almost entirely devoid of architecturalfeatures. The entrance door was at the south-east angle—one jamb, withthe bar-hole, being still preserved. The staircase was probably carriedup in the adjoining angle of the wall, but of this there is now no narrow loop occurs in the south wall, not far from the doorway, andthe remains of a wall-chamber are traceable in the west wall. A remarkable structure still survives on the east side of the consists of a heptagonal tower 20 feet in diameter internally, placedat a considerably lower level than the courtyard of the castle. This FIRST PERIOD — 84 — ELLANDONAN CASTLE
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