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Old Photographs Doune Broch Carloway Scotland
Old photograph of Doune Broch at Carloway on the Island of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Dun Carloway was probably built in the 1st century AD. The broch was occasionally used in later times as a stronghold. The Morrisons of Ness put Dun Carloway into use in 1601. The story goes that they had stolen cattle from the MacAuleys of Uig. The MacAuleys wanted their cattle back and found the Morrisons in the broch. One of them, Donald Cam MacAuley, climbed the outer wall using two daggers and managed to smoke-out the inhabitants by throwing heather into the broch and then setting fire to it The MacAuleys then destroyed the broch.
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