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The Boggart is a children's novel by Susan Cooper published in 1993 by Macmillan.The book was nominated for a Young Reader's Choice Award (Grade 4–8) in 1996. [citation needed] It tells the tale of a family from Canada, the Volniks, who inherit a castle in Scotland.
The Monarch of the Glen is a Scottish comic farce novel written by English-born Scottish author Compton Mackenzie and published in 1941. The first in Mackenzie's Highland Novels series, it depicts the life in the fictional Scottish castle of Glenbogle. The television programme Monarch of the Glen is very loosely based on the series.
The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland from the Twelfth to the Eighteenth Century is a book that was published in 5 volumes from 1887 to 1892 by Scottish architects David MacGibbon and Thomas Ross. [2] [3] The book describes 769 Scottish castles. It includes illustrations and information on the castle's condition. [4]
William Stewart of Grandtully (1567–1646) was a Scottish landowner and courtier. William Stewart of Grandtully, Adam de Colone Painted wooden vault at Grandtully Chapel William Stewart was given the Ruthven castle of Trochry in Perthshire Murthly Castle
The two castles were set alight and razed, and the prisoners were transported by boat to Dunoon, where the Campbells slaughtered over two hundred of Lamont's men, women and children. Thirty-six men were killed by hanging, while the rest were stabbed to death or buried alive. James Lamont was thrown into a dungeon for five years.
St Margaret's Chapel, in Edinburgh Castle, is the oldest surviving building in Edinburgh, Scotland. [1] An example of Romanesque architecture , it is a category A listed building . [ 2 ] It was constructed in the 12th century, but fell into disuse after the Reformation.
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Anne of Denmark (1574–1619) was the wife of James VI and I, and queen consort of Scotland from 1589, and queen consort of England and Ireland from the union of the Scottish and English crowns in 1603 until her death on 2 March 1619 at Hampton Court. [1] She was buried at Westminster Abbey on 13 May. [2]