Smerby Castle

Smerby Castle (Island Muller Castle)
Kintyre, Scotland

Island Muller, Kintyre, Scotland
Location within Argyll and Bute
Type Fortified house
Coordinates
Current
condition		 Ruin

Smerby Castle, also known as Island Muller Castle, is a ruined fortified house on a promontory known as Isla Muller, Kintyre, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, north of Campbeltown.[1] The site is protected as a scheduled monument.[2]

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History

16th century

Ranald MacDonald was granted Smerby Castle from his father James MacDonald, 6th of Dunnyveg.

Angus MacDonald, 8th of Dunnyveg was kept as a prisoner in chains at Smerby Castle in 1598 after James MacDonald was sent to seek his fathers submission to King James V of Scotland. Angus suffered burns after his Kintyre house Askomull was burnt down by his son James and was subsequently captured.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ "Island Muller Castle". CANMORE. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/38787/details/island+muller/. Retrieved 29 September 2011. 
  2. ^ "Island Muller Castle". Historic Scotland. http://data.historic-scotland.gov.uk/pls/htmldb/f?p=2300:35:7781881197790711::NO::P35_SELECTED_MONUMENT:3222. Retrieved 5 October 2011. 
  3. ^ A. MacDonald, et.al. p.569.

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