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Kildonan Castle






  Kildonan, Isle of Arran KA27 8SD

 

Description

Kildonan Castle | Argyll, Clyde and Ayrshire | Castles, Forts and Battles

Kildonan Castle was built in the thirteenth century by the MacDonalds as they vied with the Stewarts for control of the former Norse owned territories on Scotland’s West Coast. One of three castles on Arran, Kildonan was abandoned in the sixteenth century and today is a ruin located within a private garden.