Clan MacLeod - Knock Castle - Framed & Mounted Photo Print Frame Style:Natural but the effort failed and

but the effort failed and it remained in MacDonald hands

making it one of the longest continually held clan seats in the Highlands

The present building was constructed from 1743

besieged Knock Castle in an attempt to retake it

In the eighteenth century

Clan MacLeod - Knock Castle - Framed & Mounted Photo Print Frame Style:Natural but the effort failed andKnock Castle, also known by its Gaelic name Caisteal Camus, stands in ruins near Armadale on the southern shore of Skye, the island that has been at the heart of MacLeod territory for more than seven centuries. Records suggest the castle was held by the MacLeods in the 15th century before it passed to the MacDonalds, who were then their principal rivals for dominance across the western Highlands. In 1515, the MacLeod chief Alasdair Crotach, one of the