Clan Campbell - Mingary Castle - Photo Print MacLaine of Lochbuie A large moss-covered oak fills

A large moss-covered oak fills the left of the frame

and later to the young James VI

William Douglas built it around 1350

becoming Keeper of the Privy Seal

The castle later passed to the Sutherlands and then to the Mackays as the balance of power in the far north shifted across the generations

Clan Campbell - Mingary Castle - Photo Print MacLaine of Lochbuie A large moss-covered oak fillsPhotographer Aly Wight took this photograph of Mingary Castle on the Ardnamurchan peninsula, one of the most remote corners of the Scottish mainland. The Campbells acquired this sea girt fortress from the MacIans of Ardnamurchan, extending their influence far beyond their Argyll heartland to the very tip of the west coast. Holding Mingary meant controlling the sea approaches between the Sound of Mull and the open Atlantic. It was never an easy place