Old Photograph Castle Sinclair Girnigoe Scotland

Old photograph of Castle Sinclair Girnigoe located three miles North of Wick, Scotland. This is considered to be one of the earliest seats of Clan Sinclair. In 1577, George Sinclair, the 4th Earl of Caithness imprisoned his own son John, Master of Caithness in this Scottish castle, on suspicion of rebelling against his rule. He was held there for seven years, after which his father fed him a diet of salted beef, with nothing to drink, so that he eventually died insane from thirst.



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