Finlaggan Castle On Visit To Island Of Islay Inner Hebrides Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video, with Scottish music, of Finlaggan Castle on visit to Island Of Islay, Inner Hebrides. Finlaggan Castle, Scottish Gaelic: Port an Eilein, English: Port of the Island, also known as Eilean Mor Castle is a ruined fortified house located on the isle of Eilean Mór on Loch Finlaggan. It was once a residence and stronghold of Lord of the Isles and Clan Donald. Finlaggan was the seat of the Lords of the Isles and of Clan Donald. Two of the three islands that lie in the expansive scenery surrounding Loch Finlaggan, Eilean Mor, large island, and Eilean na Comhairle, council isle, were the administrative centre of the Lordship of the Isles during the 13th to 15th centuries, until 1493 when the lordship of the Isles fell to King James IV of Scotland, who administered the territory via a tenant-in-chief. In the first half of the 7th-century, a monastic community was established on Eilean Mor, the larger of the islands in the loch. This was either dedicated to or possibly founded by St Findlugan, an Irish monk and a contemporary of St Columba. The Lords of the Isles used the fortress as a principal court and meeting place of their clan chiefs. Iain Mor MacDonald, 3rd of Dunnyveg and his son Iain Cathanach MacDonald were taken prisoner at Finlaggan Castle, through the deception of Macian of Ardnamurchan for the hanging and execution of the governor of Dunaverty Castle and were later tried and hung on the Burgh Muir, Edinburgh. In 1541 Finlaggan was held from the Crown by Donald MacGilleasbuig. The castle appears to have been demolished in the 15th and 16th century All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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