A private house on the grounds.
For Dan’s Thursday Doors: Austrian Room – No Facilities
A Door at Bayard Cutting Arboretum
Thursday Doors
Advasar Doors
Ardvasar on Undiscovered Scotland has information about the little village on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Ardvasar is the main village on the southern Sleat Peninsula of Skye. The village is reached by a scenic single-track road through woodland and along the coast, with views across to Knoydart. Key features include the Ardvasar Food Store, Community Hall, historic Ardvasar Hotel, residential areas, and views over the Sound of Sleat. The road continues to Aird of Sleat, a viewpoint and walking destination.
That evening we dined at the Duisdale House and Hotel. It was expensive, and the food was awful. It was the only really bad meal that we had during our two weeks in Scotland.
For Dan’s Thursday Doors: Philippine Room – No Facilities
Kilmore Church
A Chill Mhor, the great cell, refers to the old church, now a ruin beside the present church, a large rectangular whitewashed building with lancet windows. Designed by John Mackenzie and built in 1876, its Victorian furnishings are complete. Notable monuments flank the pulpit, including one of 1768 to Sir James Macdonald. Close by is Sabhal M’r Ostaig, a steading of 1840 converted into a Gaelic college.
Sleat Parish Church (1876) is located here, with the ruins of the Old Parish Church behind (1631–1876). A former Minister, Rev. John Forbes (1818–63) was a noted Gaelic scholar who wrote a Gaelic grammar and investigated the deaths of three girls from the parish who were taken to the cotton mills of Manchester as forced-labor and published his findings in a book, Weeping in the Isles (1853). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilmore,_Skye
Kilmore, on the Sleat peninsula of the Isle of Skye, is a small hamlet and long-standing religious site known for Sleat Parish Church, earlier church ruins, and evidence of early Christian activity. Local tradition links the area to St Columba, while its churches reflect centuries of Highland religious history, clan conflict, and Clan Donald patronage. The present church, built in 1876, was restored after structural problems in the 1980s and remains an important part of the area’s cultural and ecclesiastical heritage. (source: https://grokipedia.com/page/kilmore_skye)
For Dan’s Thursday Doors: https://nofacilities.com/2026/07/16/korean-heritage-room/
Duntulm Castle
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.
Fort William Doors
We stayed in Fort William twice. It is a half way point between Glasgow airport and the Isle of Skye. The trip leaders took us to some lovely places around the nearby lochs (see other posts).
For Dan’s Thursday Doors: Czechoslovak Room – No Facilities
Portree Doors
couple of doors from our stay in Portree, isle of Sky at the end of April.
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Eilean Donan Doors
Eilean Donan Castle in Loch Alsh, Kyle, Dornie, Scotland. These are doors for Dan’s Thursday Doors: https://nofacilities.com/2026/06/11/the-german-room/.
St John’s Doors
A lovely Scottish church by Loch Leven, Scotland.
Some church and hut doors for Dan’s Thursday Doors: https://nofacilities.com/2026/06/04/iowa-doors-2/
