Tour Scotland Travel Video Gylen Castle Island of Kerrera Argyll and Bute

Tour Scotland travel video Blog of Gylen Castle on the Island of Kerrera on ancestry visit to Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Gylen Castle is a ruined castle, or tower house, on a promontory overlooking the Firth of Lorne. Built in 1582 by the Clan MacDougall. Gylen was only occupied for a relatively short time. The castle was besieged then burned by the Covenanters under General Leslie in 1647 during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

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