Eilean Donan Castle is an originally thirteenth-century castle, located 0.8 kilometres from Dornie, on an island in Loch Duich in the Scottish Highland region. At the beginning of the eighteenth century the castle was blown up. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Eilean Donan Castle was extensively restored and opened to the public. Eilean Donan is Scottish Gaelic for Donan Island, named after Saint Donan. Saint Donan came to Scotland from Ireland around 580. A congregation of his followers probably settled on the island in the late sixth or seventh century. The island had been inhabited before; in the 1920s an Iron Age fort was still visible.
The island lies at the point where three seas/lakes meet, namely Loch Long, Loch Duich and Loch Alsh. It was probably only in the early thirteenth century that a castle was built on the island, as a defence against the Vikings. From the middle of the thirteenth century, the western highlands together with the western islands formed more or less their own kingdom under the Lords of the Isles.
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Hello, nice that you take a look in my shop. So my name is Gert Hilbink, living in Coevorden. I have been doing photography since I was 13, inspired by a biology teacher at the then U.L.O. school in Coevorden. Generally I mainly photograph nature but actually.. Read more…