castle in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
  • Duart Castle, Mull
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    Duart Castle
    castle in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
    • Duart Castle, Mull

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    56°27'22.183"N, 5°39'17.788"W
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    "The first recorded mention of the Macleans of Duart is in a papal dispensation of 1367 which allowed their Chief Lachlan Lubanach Maclean to marry the daughter of the Lord of the Isles, Mary Macdonald.This it is said, was a love match, and her father was persuaded to allow it only after he had been kidnapped by Lachlan (an incident in which the Chief of the Mackinnons was killed). The Macdonalds went on to give the Mackinnon lands as a dowry and thus the Macleans came to own much of Mull. Lachlan then built the keep that stands today though the great curtain walls were probably of the previous century." (English)
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