Clan Maclean - Duart Castle - Framed & Mounted Photo Print Barclay Knock Castle

Knock Castle

were destroyed in 1600 after a plot against the king

the finger of mainland Scotland that stretches south opposite the Isle of Mull

where Claig Castle once served as a MacDonald stronghold to control passing vessels and levy tolls on the sea routes between the islands

Loch Eil sits in Lochaber

Clan Maclean - Duart Castle - Framed & Mounted Photo Print Barclay Knock CastleDuart Castle stands on a clifftop at the eastern tip of the Isle of Mull, commanding the Sound of Mull, the strait separating Mull from the Scottish mainland. Lachlan Lubanach received the first known charter for Duart in 1390 as part of his marriage to a daughter of the Lord of the Isles, and from that foundation the Macleans built a formidable power base across the Hebrides, holding lands in Mull, Tiree, Islay, Jura and beyond by the end of the 15th