Dunaverty Castle is located at Southend at the southern end of the Kintyre peninsula in western Scotland. The site was once a fort belonging to the Clan...
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The Battle of Dunaverty involved a battle and the siege of Dunaverty Castle in Kintyre, Scotland, in 1647. The events involved the Covenanter Army under...
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the early 14th century before taking him on to Dunaverty Castle on the Mull of Kintyre. The current castle, built by David Hamilton, Bishop of Argyll, between...
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near the southern tip of the Kintyre peninsula, near Southend and Dunaverty Castle. On clear days Sanda can be seen from the southern tip of the Kintyre...
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Clan Leslie (section Castles and great houses)
Sir David Leslie, restoring the power of the Committee of Estates. Dunaverty Castle was a MacDonald stronghold. During the Civil War, it was besieged in...
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forced to flee and live as a fugitive. For a time he took refuge in Dunaverty Castle near the Mull of Kintyre, but with his enemies closing in once more...
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Finlaggan (redirect from Finlaggan Castle)
at Finlaggan Castle, through the deception of MacIain of Ardnamurchan for the hanging and execution of the governor of Dunaverty Castle and were later...
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village is located beside Dunaverty Bay, which at one end has a rocky promontory called Dunaverty Rock, where Dunaverty Castle was located. Historically...
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Clan Donald (section Castles)
Morvern. Dunaverty Castle, is a ruined MacDonald castle, off the coast of Kintyre, known as Blood Rock because of the incident known as the Dunaverty Massacre...
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besieged Dunaverty Castle which was a Clan MacDonald stronghold. The MacDonalds surrendered and then perhaps 300 of them were killed (the Dunaverty Massacre)...
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MacDonald of Ardnamurchan (section Castles)
provisioned Dunaverty Castle. It is said that the MacDonalds led by Sir John MacDonald, who the king had recently knighted, retook the castle before the...
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from Dumbarton to Tarbert Castle, before sailing south to Dunaverty Castle in Kintyre. The royal forces repaired both castles and soon afterwards Sir John...
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issue: Gilleasbuig (Archibald), killed at Dunaverty Castle in 1647. Aonghus (Angus), killed at Dunaverty Castle in 1647. Alasdair (Alexander), married Elizabeth...
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by Aonghus Óg himself at Dunaverty Castle. Although the Bruce maintains that Aonghus Óg harboured the king at Dunaverty Castle, contemporary evidence reveals...
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control of a particular castle. Although this fortress is unnamed, it may have been either Dunaverty Castle of Skipness Castle—either of which could have...
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homage, retook Dunaverty Castle just as the King was sailing for Stirling. The dead body of the castle's governor was hung over the castle walls in sight...
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a list of castles in Argyll and Bute. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Castles in Argyll and Bute. Castles in Scotland List of castles in Scotland...
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Walter seized Dunaverty Castle and was granted by King Henry III of England to buy stores from Ireland to provision and fortify the castle. Walter was captured...
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several castles were secured by Hákon's forces: Rothesay Castle on Bute; and an unnamed castle in southern Kintyre, which was more than likely Dunaverty Castle...
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were enemies of the MacDougalls. Bruce was given temporary refuge in Dunaverty Castle, a location far too exposed and dangerous to remain in for long. From...
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cattle upon the Kintyre headland, and a particular fortress—most likely Dunaverty Castle—is stated to have been surrendered to Hákon by an unidentified knight...
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Walter Bisset was tasked to fortify a castle along the Scottish coast. This castle appears to have been that of Dunaverty, seated upon the southern coast of...
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that Walter Bisset seized control of Dunaverty Castle in 1248. The Bissets may have lost control of both the castle and the island with Walter Bisset's...
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in his galleys from Dunaverty on Kintyre with three hundred of his men. They were welcomed by the owners of the island and castle, the Scoto-Irish Bissett...
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Makaill). He may be identical to the Malcolm who was associated with Dunaverty Castle and Robert himself. Although an undated letter from Robert, addressed...
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and burial sites, through Roman remains and medieval structures such as castles and monasteries, to later structures such as industrial sites and buildings...
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the Seventeenth Century that Monro may have been referring to nearby Dunaverty Castle, which although not on an island is situated on a rocky headland attached...
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the Bruce states that, when Robert fled English-aligned forces to Dunaverty Castle in 1306, Robert was fearful of treason during his stay. One possibility...
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the campaign. On his way to join the besieged Royalist garrison at Dunaverty Castle in 1647, he was captured by Coveanter Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess...
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Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Bell United Kingdom The sloop was wrecked at Dunaverty Castle, Argyllshire. Charlotte United Kingdom The ship struck rocks near...
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