![]() Like a vigilant guardian, the impressive fortress of Edinburgh Castle sits above the city of Edinburgh on an extinct volcano. Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland Edinburgh Castle ![]() The promontory is sometimes cut off by high water, leaving Ardvreck on its very own small island. ![]() However, in its heyday, the castle was much larger as can be seen from the surviving foundations. All that remains are a tower and a connected piece of wall. Located under the brooding bulk of Quinag, Ardvreck Castle was the traditional seat of the MacLeods of Assynt.Īrdvreck Castle was built by Angus Mor III in the late 16th century. Ardvreck Castle, Scotland Ardvreck CastleĪrdvreck Castle is a ruined fortress on a small promontory of land jutting out into Loch Assynt in Sutherland, Scotland. The rebuilding of the royal residence of Balmoral Castle is an important example of this trend towards the opulent and showy. That was until the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when the Gothic Revival and increased prosperity for the Scottish elite saw the building of such castle palaces as Culzean Castle and Inveraray Castle. With the unification of Scotland and England in the early 17th century castle construction largely ceased. Before that castles were mostly tower houses, fortified residences for the lairds or Scottish aristocracy.ĭavid I of Scotland, who spent time at the English court is thought to have brought back the idea of increasing central control of his kingdom by building castles.ĭuring the 15th century, there was a widespread construction and restoration of so-called "Renaissance" castles in Scotland: Edinburgh, Holyrood, Falkland, Stirling among them. Scotland escaped the frantic Norman building of castles in England and Wales.Ĭastle-building in Scotland largely began in the 12th century. Ardvreck Castle, Scotland History of Castles in Scotland
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