Tour Scotland Video Dunstaffnage Castle Near Oban

Tour Scotland video of Dunstaffnage Castle located three miles North of Oban, Scotland. The castle was built in the second quarter of the 13th century, as the seat of Duncan MacDougall, Lord of Lorn and grandson of Somerled. Robert the Bruce defeated the Clan MacDougall at the Battle of the Pass of Brander in 1308 or 1309, and after a brief siege, took control of Dunstaffnage Castle. Dunstaffnage was controlled by a series of keepers. king James I seized the castle in 1431, following the Battle of Inverlochy. King James III granted Dunstaffnage to Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll in 1470. During the Jacobite risings of 1715 and 1745, the castle was occupied by government troops. Flora MacDonald, who helped Bonnie Prince Charlie to escape from Scotland, was briefly imprisoned here while en route to imprisonment in London. England. The Campbells continued to add to the castle, building a new house over the old west range in 1725. However, the rest of the castle was already decaying. In 1810 an accidental fire gutted the castle.

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