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Armadale Castle is a ruined country house in Armadale, Skye, former home of the MacDonalds. A mansion house was first built here around 1790, facing south-east over the Sound of Sleat . In 1815 a square Tudor-Gothic mock-castle, intended for show rather than defence, designed by Edinburgh architect James Gillespie Graham , was built next to the ...
Armadale castle and gardens The name ’Armadale’, meaning ‘elongated valley’, derives from the Old Norse armr and dalr . [ 2 ] Clan Donald has a visitor centre situated next to the ruins of Armadale Castle and surrounded by large gardens, while the nearby Sabhal Mòr Ostaig is a centre of Gaelic learning.
SS Armadale Castle was a passenger steamship built in 1903 at Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering, Govan, Scotland, for the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co Ltd, London, the first ship ordered for the newly formed company. Armadale Castle was requisitioned as an armed merchant cruiser in the Royal Navy 2 August 1914. She was returned to ...
Armadale Castle consists of a country house built in the 1790s and the remains of a burnt-out mock castle built in the 19th century. Today the 20,000-acre (8,100-hectare) estate is the site of the Clan Donald Centre and the Museum of the Isles.
Armadale from the north-west before the last lum was demolished. To the north of Armadale (Woodend Farm) is the site of Ogilface Castle. [7] [8] Woodend Farm has another site nearer Blackridge, marked as 'Ogelface in ruins' on a 1773 map. [9]
The 18th-century Armadale Castle, once the home of Clan Donald of Sleat, was abandoned as a residence in 1925, but now hosts the Clan Donald Centre. [92] Nearby are the ruins of two more MacDonald strongholds, Knock Castle , and Dunscaith Castle (called "Fortress of Shadows"), the legendary home of warrior woman, martial arts instructor (and ...
Armadale Castle on the Isle of Skye was begun in 1815 and today houses the Clan Donald Centre and the Museum of the Isles which are open to the public. [51] Knock Castle (Isle of Skye) is a ruined Macdonald castle located on the Isle of Skye. [51] Duntulm Castle is a ruined MacDonald castle located on the Isle of Skye.
Ardvasar (Scottish Gaelic: Àird a’ Bhàsair) is a village near the southern end of the Sleat peninsula, on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. [1] It is just to the south of the village of Armadale, where a ferry crosses to Mallaig.