Scotland:  Dramatic Places - Historic Sites
By:  Brian C. Mack
Artist:  Karol K. Mack
 
                                                                                                                                                         
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MINGARY
CASTLE

MINGARY
CASTLE

Mingary Castle
SCOTLAND

Dates from:  1265
Associated Clans / Families:
Comyn, Murray, then Stewart

 

Nestled upon a rock perch, Mingary Castle serves as the gatekeeper to the Sound of Mull.  Parts of the castle date to 1265.  Mingary was besieged by rival clans in 1515 and subsequently expanded in the 17^th and 18^th centuries.  The castle was derelict by 1848.  The painting captures the ruin’s appearance in 2004.

Pictured:

Mingary  Castle   8" x 10" oil

An excerpt from the book Scotland:  Castles and Clans the Legends.

From:

 No Escape

A Legend of Mingary Castle

. . .  It takes no prophet to predict a spy's death.  We regularly meet our end in execution, most often upon betrayal.  My demise lacks the pomp and circumstance that I had imagined:  this grim reality does not match the prettier picture in my head.  Nonetheless, all mortals meet their end.  My words and thoughts are free now; from their prior confines with my skull, they have escaped to the printed page.  The village girl, as well, is left to tell her stories, passed down in turn through the generations, achieving an immortality of their own.  Over 450 years later, beneath the dark blue, almost gray water of the sound, the Florida sleeps . . .

Told from the perspective

of Abner Pryce 

Mingary Castle is included in the Highlands Map.

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