Tour Scotland short travel video clip, with Scottish music, of the Tower House of the ruin of Tarbert Castle on ancestry, history visit and trip to Kintyre in Argyll and Bute, Highlands, Britain, United Kingdom. There was almost certainly a fortification on the hill in the 8th century, for the Annals of Ulster tell of a fort burned by King Selbach in AD 712 and again by his son Dungal the Violent in AD 731. The first stone structure was built in the 13th century. King Edward I of England seized the castle when he claimed the Scottish crown. In 1292 he granted the castle to John Balliol. When Robert Bruce seized the crown and took the castle for his own. Bruce needed to reinforce the castle to deter the MacDonald Lords of the Isles from exerting control over the western fringes of his territory. In the last decade of the 15th century, King James IV embarked on a campaign to break the power of the Lords of the Isles. In 1494 he repaired the castle and built the Tower House, now the best-preserved part of the castle complex. Despite its strong connections to the Scottish crown, the castle was allowed to fall into decay in the 17th century. By the early years of the 18th century it was recorded as a ruin. That did not deter the McAlister family of Tarbert, who took up a lease from the Campbells in 1705. By 1760 the castle had been allowed to decay again, and much of the stone was robbed for local building projects.. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome
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