- TITLE
- Eilean Donan Castle
- EXTERNAL ID
- HCD00471
- PLACENAME
- Dornie
- DISTRICT
- South West Ross
- OLD COUNTY/PARISH
- ROSS: Lochalsh
- DATE OF IMAGE
- 1932
- PERIOD
- 1930s
- CREATOR
- Duncan Macpherson
- SOURCE
- Skye and Lochalsh Archive Centre
- ASSET ID
- 12178
- KEYWORDS
- castle
Eilean Donan
loch
people
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A long procession of people is seen here following a pipe band towards Eilean Donan Castle. Marquees have been set up, and the occasion is almost certainly the formal opening of the reconstucted castle in July 1932, when the War Memorial was also unveiled. The small island on which the castle was built may have been inhabited from as far back as the 3rd century, but the original castle was built in the 13th century. It was owned by the MacRaes for some 400 years, but was destroyed by government naval forces in 1719 when occupied by Spanish and Jacobite troops. The island was bought in 1913, and the present castle was reconstructed from the ruins by Farquhar MacRae for Lt. Colonel MacRae-Gilstrap. The castle was completed in 1932, becoming surely one of the most photographed castles in Scotland
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