Duart Castle / Isle of Mull ***

Region: Argyll & The Isles

In this region: <<<<<  >>>>>

Description:

This TRUE castle, home to the Macleans of Duart, stands on a crag at the end of the peninsular jutting out into the Sound of Mull at the intersection of the sound of Mull, Loch Linne and the Firth of Lorne and within view of the neighbouring castles of Dunstaffnage, Dunollie, Aros and Ardtornish, part of a chain of castles up the Sound of Mull to Mingary Castle.

Duart was originally a rectangular wall enclosing a courtyard. In 1350 Lachlan Lubanach, the 5^th Chief, married Mary Macdonald, the daughter of the Lord of the Isles and she was given Duart as her dowry.