Duntulm Castle sits on a rocky promontory near the settlement of Duntulm on Skye’s Trotternish Peninsula, protected by cliffs and a ditch on the landward side. The ruins are now unstable and much reduced from their condition in the 1880s, due to stone reuse, erosion, and collapse, including a tower falling into the sea in 1990. The site may have origins as an Iron Age fort, later used by the Norse, the MacLeods, and then the MacDonalds of Sleat, who improved the castle before abandoning it around 1730. Local legends connect the ruins with tragic deaths and ghosts, including a nursemaid and Hugh MacDonald. Duntulm Castle – Wikipedia for details. You’ll have to imagine seeing the doors on the castle.
The museum was fun: The Skye Museum of Island Life – An Old Highland Village
For Dan’s Thursday Doors: Old Sturbridge Village 6-26 – No Facilities.
Great slice of history 🙌
It is indeed 😁
Fine history in these images
We love historical things.
What a mysterious and intriguing site. I don’t mind imagining doors, or other architectural elements. Your photos are beautiful. Thanks for including the links.
You are so welcome. Thanks very much.
I remember a photograph my mother took in the 1950s, and being very disappointed when the view in front of my eyes was less impressive when I got to Skye
She must have made an amazing photo.
Sadly, I don’t have it
😥
Life happens
Sounds like something for a gothic novel. I bet there is one. It looks mysteriously beautiful
I found a lot of the Scottish scenery to be very romantic. 😊