Tour Scotland short 4K Spring travel video clip of a Scotsman wearing a Kilt and Sporran and walking by daffodils on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to a castle in Kirkcudbrightshire, Britain, United Kingdom. The McCulloch lairds built the present castle in the late 15th century. In the 1560s, an English spy reported on the castle to Queen Elizabeth I of England, in preparation for a planned invasion of Scotland that never took place. In 1622, the Gordons of Ardwall acquired the mortgaged estate. Feuding between the McCullochs and the Gordons culminated in 1690, when Sir Godfrey McCulloch shot dead William Gordon of Buck o'Bield. Sir Godfrey escaped to France, but was spotted in Edinburgh in 1697 and beheaded on the Maiden, the Scottish equivalent of the guillotine. The castle was subsequently uninhabited, and passed through the hands of a number of owners. 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. The date for astronomical Spring is 20th March, ending on 21st June
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