Smerby Castle

Smerby Castle (Island Muller Castle)
Kintyre, Scotland

Island Muller, Kintyre, Scotland
Smerby Castle (Island Muller Castle)
Coordinates 55°26′12″N 5°32′20″W / 55.4366°N 5.5388°W
Type Fortified house
Site information
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]

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. Retrieved 29 September 2011.
  2. ↑ "Island Muller Castle". Historic Scotland. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
  3. ↑ A. MacDonald, et al. p.569.

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