Qualla: Dunaverty Castle https://qualla.com/dunaverty-castle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Dunaverty Castle https://qualla.com/dunaverty-castle Dunaverty Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/dunaverty-castle/ There is almost nothing here. A grassy headland sticks out into the sea at the southern tip of the Kintyre peninsula, cliffs on three sides, a single narrow neck of land tying it to the mainland. If you climbed the path on a clear afternoon you might think of it as a small, dramatic piece of scenery - the kind of place where a child would invent a castle. There was a castle. The MacDonalds held it for centuries. What remains is a few scraps of stone half-buried in turf, and a local name: Blood Rock.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/f/dunaverty-castle-wp/gcgf-dunaverty-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Dunaverty Castle: The Headland https://qualla.com/dunaverty-castle/ Geography decided what Dunaverty would be long before anyone built on it. The promontory drops away to the sea on three sides. The drawbridge crossed the only approach, a path so narrow you can still walk it today and feel uneasy. A defender at Dunaverty needed to watch one direc...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/f/dunaverty-castle-wp/gcgf-dunaverty-castle-the-headland.mp3 0:06 2 full Dunaverty Castle: Bruce on the Run https://qualla.com/dunaverty-castle/ In the autumn of 1306 Robert the Bruce was a king without a country. The Battle of Methven had gone catastrophically; his coronation was already four months ago and felt like a lifetime; his enemies were closing in. According to the medieval poem The Bruce, he fled west to Dunave...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/f/dunaverty-castle-wp/gcgf-dunaverty-castle-bruce-on-the-run.mp3 0:06 3 full Dunaverty Castle: Knighthood and Vengeance https://qualla.com/dunaverty-castle/ By 1493 the Lord of the Isles had forfeited his title to James IV. The king sailed to Kintyre, garrisoned Dunaverty, and took the formal submission of the local chiefs. Among them was Sir John MacDonald, whom James had knighted on the spot. The king then sailed for Stirling. Acco...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/f/dunaverty-castle-wp/gcgf-dunaverty-castle-knighthood-and-vengeance.mp3 0:06 4 full Dunaverty Castle: 1647 https://qualla.com/dunaverty-castle/ The Civil Wars of the 1640s reached Kintyre in the late spring of 1647. A garrison of MacDonalds and Irish soldiers loyal to the Royalist cause held Dunaverty. General David Leslie arrived with a Covenanter army, encircled the headland, and cut off the well that supplied the cast...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/f/dunaverty-castle-wp/gcgf-dunaverty-castle-1647.mp3 0:06 5 full Dunaverty Castle: What You See https://qualla.com/dunaverty-castle/ Stand at Dunaverty today and there is almost nothing built. A few worked stones in the grass; the remains of a curtain wall on the seaward side; the outline of where the gatehouse must have been. The headland is open to walkers - it is a scheduled monument managed for access - an...

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