Tour Scotland Travel Video Castle Tioram Loch Moidart Lochaber Scottish Highlands

Tour Scotland travel video Blog of Castle Tioram, Scottish Gaelic: Caisteal Tioram, meaning " dry castle " a ruined castle that sits on the tidal island Eilean Tioram in Loch Moidart, Lochaber on ancestry visit to the Scottish Highlands of Scotland. The island fortress is first recorded in a charter of Cairistíona Nic Ruaidhrí. According to early modern tradition, the castle was erected in the fourteenth century by her niece, Áine Nic Ruaidhrí. The castle served as the seat of the latter's Clann Domhnaill descendants for the next four hundred years. Castle Tioram is now known as the traditional seat of the Clanranald, Clann Raghnaill, branch of Clan Donald. The castle was seized by Government forces in around 1692 when the clan chief Allan MacDonald of Clanranald joined the Jacobite Court in France, despite having sworn allegiance to the British Crown. A small garrison was stationed in the castle until the Jacobite rising of 1715 when Allan recaptured and torched it, purportedly to keep it out of the hands of Hanoverian forces. It has been unoccupied since that time, although there are some accounts suggesting it was partially inhabited thereafter including for the storage of firearms from the De Tuillay in the 1745 Jacobite Uprising and Lady Grange's account of her kidnapping.

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