Castle Stalker in Scotland
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Castle Stalker (
Scottish Gaelic : Caisteal an Stalcaire) is a four-storey
tower house or
keep . It is set on a
tidal islet on Loch Laich, an inlet off
Loch Linnhe . It is about 2 miles (2.5 kilometres) north-east of
Port Appin ,
Argyll , Scotland, and is visible from the
A828 road about midway between
Oban and
Glen Coe . The islet is accessible with difficulty from the shore at low tide. The name “Stalker” comes from the
Gaelic Stalcaire , meaning “hunter” or “falconer”. The
island castle is one of the best preserved medieval tower houses to survive in western Scotland and is a Category A
listed building . It stands in the Lynn of Lorn
National Scenic Area , one of forty such areas in Scotland.
The castle was used as one of the locations for the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail National Records of Scotland as an inhabited island that “had no usual residents at the time of either the 2001 or 2011 censuses.”
Ardnamurchan mountains in the background © Andrewmckie/cc-by-sa-4.0
The original castle was a small fort, built around 1320 by
Clan MacDougall who were then Lords of
Lorn . Around 1388 the
Stewarts took over the Lordship of Lorn, and it is believed that they built the castle in its present form around the 1440s. The Stewarts’ relative King
James IV of Scotland visited the castle, and a drunken bet around 1620 resulted in the castle passing to
Clan Campbell . After the castle changed hands between these clans a couple of times, the Campbells finally abandoned it about 1840 when it lost its roof. In 1908 the castle was bought by Charles Stewart of Achara, who carried out basic conservation work. In 1965 Lt. Col. D. R. Stewart Allward acquired the castle and over about ten years fully restored it. Castle Stalker remains in private ownership and is open to the public at selected times during the summer.
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