Dunaverty Rock at the end of Dunaverty Beach in Dunaverty Bay where Dunaverty Castle was situated.

Dunaverty Castle is in South Kintyre in Scotland and was once a fort belonging to the Clan Donald or MacDonald. Kintyre shown within Argyll Kintyre is a peninsula in western Scotland in the south-west of Argyll. ... Motto: (Latin for No one provokes me with impunity)1 Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official language(s) English, Gaelic, Scots2 Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen of the UK Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Jack McConnell MSP Unification    - by... The Donald Clan Crest. ...

History

The remains of Dunaverty Castle stand on a rocky head land on the south east corner of Kintyre, Scotland. The headland it was built on forms a natural stronghold with the sea on three sides and is only approachable from the north. It is attached to the mainland only by a narrow path. It is known that the castle itself was accessed by a drawbridge. Kintyre shown within Argyll Kintyre is a peninsula in western Scotland in the south-west of Argyll. ... Motto: (Latin for No one provokes me with impunity)1 Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official language(s) English, Gaelic, Scots2 Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen of the UK Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Jack McConnell MSP Unification    - by...

In 1248 King Henry of England allowed Walter Bissett to buy stores from Ireland for Dunaverty Castle which he had siezes and was fortifying, apparently in revenge for hospitality given by King Alexander II of Scotland to certain English pirates. However during that same year the castle was taken by Allan, the son of the Earl of Atholl and Bissett was taken prisoner. Alexander II (August 24, 1198 – July 6, 1249), king of Scotland, son of William I, the Lion, and of Ermengarde of Beaumont, was born at Haddington, East Lothian, in 1198, and succeeded to the kingdom on the death of his father on 4 December 1214. ... The title Duke of Atholl was created several times in British history. ...

In 1263 Dunaverty Castle was garrisoned by King Alexander III of Scotland during the Norse invasion by King Haakon IV of Norway. The castle was eventually surrendered to the Norwegian King. Eventually the Norwegian King gave the castle to Dugall MacRuairi the founder of Clan MacDougall. Dugall or Dougall was the grandson of Ranald who was in turn the son of the rival Scottish King Somerled the ancestor of all MacDonalds and MacDougalls. The castle is believed to have soon become property of Alexander MacDonald of Isla. Alexander III (September 4, 1241 – March 19, 1286), King of Scots, also known as Alexander the Glorious, ranks as one of Scotlands greatest kings. ... An illustration of Hákon, King of Norway, and his son Magnus, from Flateyjarbók Håkon IV (1204 – December 16, 1263), (Norwegian Håkon Håkonsson, Old Norse Hákon Hákonarson) also called Haakon the Old. ... Clan MacDougall is a Scottish clan traditionally associated with the lands of Argyll and Lorn in Scotland. ... MacDonald of Clan Ranald crest. ... Categories: Possible copyright violations ... Isla can refer to the following: Several places in Scotland As an archaic spelling of Islay, which continues to be pronounced this way. ...

It is believed that King Robert I of Scotland also known as Robert the Bruce escaped his enemies by sailing down the Firth of Clyde until he reached safety at Dunaverty Castle. There he spent several days hospitably entertained by Angus Og MacDonald. The King of Scotland however soon needed to flee to Rathlin Island off the coast of Ireland in order to escape the pursuing English fleet. On the 22nd of September 1306 the English King ordered the employment of miners, crossbowmen and masons in the siege of Dunaverty Castle which was soon surrendered. Robert I, the Bruce, in a conjectural drawing Robert I, (Roibert a Briuis in medieval Gaelic, Raibeart Bruis in modern Scottish Gaelic and Robert de Brus or Robert de Bruys in Norman French), usually known in modern English today as Robert the Bruce (11 July 1274 – 7 June 1329), was... Map of the Firth of Clyde and area The Firth of Clyde forms a large area of coastal water, sheltered from the Atlantic ocean by the Kintyre peninsula which encloses the outer firth in Argyll and Ayrshire, Scotland. ... Rathlin Islands location Bird sanctuary on Rathlin Island False-colour NASA Landsat image showing Rathlin, the Antrim coast, and Kintyre Rathlin Island, or Reachlainn, in Irish is an island off the coast of County Antrim in Northern Ireland, and is the northernmost point of the region. ...

In 1493 the fourth and last Lord of the Isles forfeited his title to King James IV of Scotland. By 1494 the King had garrisoned and provisioned Dunaverty Castle. It is said that the MacDonalds led by Sir John MacDonald, who the king had recently knighted, retook the castle before the King had even departed to Stirling and that the dead body of the King's castle governor was hung over the castle walls in sight of the King and his departing entourage. Sir John Macdonald however was later captured by Maclain of Ardnamurchan. He was tried and hung on the Burgh Muir. Lord of the Isles, now a Scottish title of nobility, originally referred to a series of hybrid Viking/Gaelic rulers of the west coast and islands of Scotland in the Middle Ages, who wielded sea-power with fleets of galleys. ... James IV (March 17, 1473-September 9, 1513) - King of Scots from 1488 to 1513. ... Broad St at the heart of Stirlings Old Town area called Top of the Town by locals on a rare snowy day Stirling Castle (Southwest aspect) The main courtyard inside Stirling Castle. ... MacDonald of Ardnamurchan crest Clan MacDonald of Ardnamurchan also known as MacIain of Ardnamurchan was a sub-branch of the main Clan Donald of MacDonald. ...

The castle was repaired by the crown between 1539 and 1542. In January 1544, a Commission in Queen Mary's name was given to the Captain, Constable and Keeper of the Castle of Dunaverty, to deliver it with its artillery and ammunition to the Earl of Argyll and in April of that year Argyll received a 12-year tack of North and South Kintyre, including the Castle. The castle was attacked by the Earl of Surrey in 1588 but no damage was done. The title Duke of Argyll was created in the peerage of Scotland in 1701 and in the peerage of the United Kingdom in 1892. ... The Earldom of Surrey was first created in 1088 for William de Warenne. ...

In 1626, the Lordship of Kintyre was reconstituted in favour of the Earl of Argyll and Dunaverty Castle was denoted as its principal message. Argyll bestowed the Lordship of Kintyre on James, his eldest son by his second marriage, who, in 1635, at Dunaverty, granted a charter of the Lordship to Viscount Dunluce, eldest son of the first Earl of Antrim but the transfer was set aside by the Scottish Privy Council, no doubt on a complaint by Argyll's eldest son, the Marquis of Lorn, who had bitterly resented his father's bestowal of the Lordship on his younger half-brother. On 12th December 1636, Lom received a charter, under the Great Seal, of the Lordship of Kintyre, with the Castle of Dunaverty as its principal message

During the Civil War it was besieged in 1647 by Scottish supporters of Oliver Cromwell who were led by General David Leslie from Clan Leslie (Leslie later became a Royalist). The MacDonalds surrendered and then 300 of them were massacred. The castle is nothing more than a ruin now, known as Blood Rock. This incident became known as the Dunaverty Massacre. Oliver Cromwell (April 25, 1599 – September 3, 1658) was an English military and political leader, considered by some critics to be a dictator, best known for making England a republic and leading the Commonwealth of England. ... See also David Leslie the Scottish rugby player. ... Clan Leslie is a Scottish clan. ... Look up Royalist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In Kintyre, Scotland, at Dunaverty Castle in 1647, after the Battle of Rhunahaorine Moss, the remaining men of MacDonalds army surrendered at Dunaverty after a seige and were killed, nearly to the man, by the Covenanters under General David Leslie. ...

See also

• Castles in Scotland
• Clan Donald

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External links

• http://www.highlandconnection.org/castles/dunavertycastle.html
• http://www.visitkintyre.info/places/Southend/