Old Photograph Inchmurrin Island Loch Lomond Scotland

Old photograph of a cottage on Inchmurrin Island on Loch Lomond, Scotland. This Scottish island was formerly a deer park of the Dukes of Montrose, who had a hunting lodge built in 1793 and maintained a gamekeeper and his family there. There are ruins of Lennox Castle, probably built for Duncan, 8th Earl of Lennox whose seat was Balloch Castle at the south end of Loch Lomond. The castle here was probably a hunting lodge for the deer park established on the island by King Robert I of Scotland in the early 14th century. After her husband Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany, father Donnchadh, Earl of Lennox, and two sons were executed by James I in 1425, Isabella Countess of Lennox retired to the castle on Inchmurrin with her grandchildren. In 1417, Iain Colquhoun of Luss was killed here by robbers. Sir John Colquhoun of Luss, governor of Dumbarton Castle, was murdered at Inchmurrin in 1439, during a raid led by Lachlan MacLean. In 1617, James VI made his only return visit to Scotland, and included Inchmurrin in his itinerary to go hunting. Rob Roy raided the island. At one point, his men came to control all the boats on the River Endrick and Loch Lomond, which were later used to remove cattle from Inchmurrin. Inchmurrin was used as a mental asylum, and also unmarried pregnant women were sent here to give birth.



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