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Dunderave Castle is an
The castle lies on a small promontory on the northern shores of 
Overview of Dundarave Castle
from the Gazetteer for Scotland
Buildings and structures completed in the 16th century Castles in Argyll and Bute Category A listed buildings in Argyll and Bute 16th-century architecture in the United Kingdom
L-plan castle
An L-plan castle is a castle or tower house in the shape of an L, typically built from the 13th to the 17th century. This design is found quite frequently in Scotland, but is also seen in England, Ireland, Romania, Sardinia, and other location ...
built in the 16th century as the Scottish seat of the MacNaughton clan.
Description
The castle lies on a small promontory on the northern shores of Loch Fyne
Loch Fyne ( gd, Loch Fìne, ; meaning "Loch of the Vine/Wine"), is a sea loch off the Firth of Clyde and forms part of the coast of the Cowal peninsula. Located on the west coast of Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It extends inland from the Sound o ...
, around north-east of Inveraray
Inveraray ( or ; gd, Inbhir Aora meaning "mouth of the Aray") is a town in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is on the western shore of Loch Fyne, near its head, and on the A83 road. It is a former royal burgh, the traditional county town of Arg ...
, Argyll
Argyll (; archaically Argyle, in modern Gaelic, ), sometimes called Argyllshire, is a historic county and registration county of western Scotland.
Argyll is of ancient origin, and corresponds to most of the part of the ancient kingdom of ...
. The castle is in use as a residence. The present castle was built after their previous castle was destroyed following a Plague
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Agriculture, fauna, and medicine
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infection. The old castle, and remnants of McNaughton crannóg
A crannog (; ga, crannóg ; gd, crannag ) is typically a partially or entirely artificial island, usually built in lakes and estuary, estuarine waters of Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Unlike the prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, whic ...
s, can still be seen on the lochan
''Loch'' () is the Scottish Gaelic, Scots and Irish word for a lake or sea inlet. It is cognate with the Manx lough, Cornish logh, and one of the Welsh words for lake, llwch.
In English English and Hiberno-English, the anglicised spelling ...
known as the Dubh Loch at the head of Glen Shira
Glen Shira ( Gaelic: Gleann Siara, "Glen of the eternal river") is a glen in Argyll, Scotland at the northern end of Loch Fyne, just to the north of Inveraray. It is a Special Area of Conservation within the UK, bordered by Beinn Bhuidhe on t ...
.
The name Dunderave is of Gaelic origin. Since the MacNachtans were designated 'of Dunderave' from as early as 1473, the place-name appears to have moved with the clan from the Dubh Loch. It has been suggested that the name derives either from Dun-an-Rudha, meaning 'The Knoll on the Promontory', or else from Dun-da-Ramh, 'The Castle of Two Oars'. The latter is taken to imply that there was a ferry near the site of the castle.
Alexander Campbell of Cawdor
Cawdor ( gd, Caladair) is a village and parish in the Highland council area, Scotland. The village is south-southwest of Nairn and east of Inverness. The village is in the Historic County of Nairnshire.
History
The village is the location of ...
visited Dunderave in September 1591.
The castle was restored and remodelled in 1911 by Sir Robert Lorimer
Sir Robert Stodart Lorimer, KBE (4 November 1864 – 13 September 1929) was a prolific Scottish architect and furniture designer noted for his sensitive restorations of historic houses and castles, for new work in Scots Baronial and Gothi ...
relandscaping the gardens at the same time.Dictionary of Scottish Architects: Robert Lorimer
See also
*Fraoch Eilean, Loch Awe
Fraoch Eilean/Ejlean is a small island situated at the northern end of Loch Awe, a freshwater lake in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is notable for being the site of a medieval royal castle, now ruined, which was given into the keeping of Clan ...
- earlier MacNauchtan castle
*Dundarave House
Dundarave is a country house in the village of Bushmills, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It was the ancestral seat of the Macnaghten family, which is the chiefly family of Clan Macnaghten.
Dundarave was designed by Sir Charles Lanyon, the ...
- the Irish seat of the MacNaughton clan
References
Bibliography
*{{citation , first=Matthew , last=Cock , title=Dunderave Castle and the MacNachtans of Argyll , publisher=Dunderave Estate , year=1998 , isbn=978-0-9658338-0-6External links
Overview of Dundarave Castle
from the Gazetteer for Scotland
Buildings and structures completed in the 16th century Castles in Argyll and Bute Category A listed buildings in Argyll and Bute 16th-century architecture in the United Kingdom