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Dùn Chonnuill

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referring to "ane strength... ane round Castell". To the northeast there are also the ruins of five roughly rectangular buildings, the largest of which is 12m by 6m in extent. They are all round-cornered and better preserved than the fortifications on the summit but are likely to be of a similar
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to which it gives its anglicised name. There is a ruined castle, perhaps dating from the mid-13th century, when it was probably one of four castles known to have been held by Ewen MacDougall of Lorn from the Norwegian crown. The first certain reference was in 1343 when the island was granted to
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The MacLeans continued to hold the island and its castle until the mid-17th century, when ownership passed to the Campbell
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had granted half of the constabulary of Dùn Chonnuill to Lachlan Lùbanach
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included "the great castle of Dunquhonie" in his list of
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Dunconnel Castle
Scottish Gaelic
Island seen from the south
Dùn Chonnuill is located in Argyll and Bute
OS grid reference
NM680126
Coordinates
56°15′N 5°44′W / 56.25°N 5.74°W / 56.25; -5.74
Garvellachs
Council area
Argyll and Bute
Country
Scotland
United Kingdom
Demographics
Garvellachs
Firth of Lorn
Scotland
Garbh Eileach
archipelago
John of Islay, Lord of the Isles
Cairnburgh
Iselborgh
Donald
Maclean of Duart
John of Fordun
Hebridean
Earls of Argyll
Dean Monro
Description of the Western Isles of Scotland

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