The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . V (,. /. FOURTH PEKIOD 300 KILBRYDE CIASTLE and took the castle of Dunyveg and the fort of Lochgorme. MeanwhileSir James Macdonald, who had been long kept prisoner in Edinburgh,succeeded in escaping, and made his way to the Western Islands,where he was well received. He raised the Islesmen, and, partly bystratagem, got possession of Dunyveg. Finding this castle untenable, hegreatly strengthened with an earthen rampart the isle of Lochgorme, andanother strength called Dunand, and threatened t
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . V (,. /. FOURTH PEKIOD 300 KILBRYDE CIASTLE and took the castle of Dunyveg and the fort of Lochgorme. MeanwhileSir James Macdonald, who had been long kept prisoner in Edinburgh,succeeded in escaping, and made his way to the Western Islands,where he was well received. He raised the Islesmen, and, partly bystratagem, got possession of Dunyveg. Finding this castle untenable, hegreatly strengthened with an earthen rampart the isle of Lochgorme, andanother strength called Dunand, and threatened to obtain possession ofthe whole of the West. In this emergency the Earl of Argyle was recalledto raise the West Highlanders. Sir James Macdonald was speedilydriven from Islay by a superior force, and his castles taken and deliveredover to the keeping of Sir John Campbell of Cawdor, while Sir Jamesmanaged to escape to Spain.* There seem to be now no traces of the forts of Lochgorme and Dunand,but Macculloch desciibes that of Lochgorme as an island, on which oncestood a square fort or castle, with a round tow
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