Description:

Historically, the castle, like most in these parts, has had a rather chequered past.

Originally built in 1220 by Alexander II as a defence against the Vikings, it subsequently became a stronghold of the Mackenzies of Kintail who installed the MacRaes as hereditary keepers.

In 1719, it was destroyed whilst acting as a garrison for Spanish troops fighting for the Jacobite cause on behalf of the 5^th Earl of Seaforth. Restoration work was only started two hundred years later and not completed until 1932.