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Parts of Dunvegan Castle are thought to date from the 9th century but additions and renovations have taken place in every century since the Macleods took over the castle in the 1200s. The castle stands 22 miles west of Portree, on the island of Skye, on the shores of Loch Dunvegan. Dunvegan has been occupied continuously occupied by the Macleods, apart from a short period after the potato famine, for nearly eight centuries. The current chief of the clan courted controversy recently when he put the Cuillin hills up for sale to pay for castle repairs. No buyer was found.

M.E.M. Donaldson was born in 1876 and came to the Highlands around 1908. She travelled extensively around the North and West Highlands, writing and taking photographs. One of her favourite locations was the Ardnamurchan Peninsula and it was there she settled, at Sanna, in 1927.

Between 1912 and 1949 Miss Donaldson produced many books on the social history and customs of the North and West Highlands. 'Wanderings in the Western Highlands and Islands' and 'Further Wanderings - Mainly in Argyll' are two of her best known works and both are illustrated with her own photographs. She died in a nursing home in Edinburgh in 1958, and was buried in Oban

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