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Dollarbeg
Castle in Dollar has
been converted into 10 luxury apartments , with 36
detached villas and bungalows in the grounds . The
castle was built in the Scots baronial style and it
was originally built in the 19th century for a
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Castle Campbell sits high in the Ochil Hills
overlooking Dollar. It can be reached by a single
track road up the hillside and a short walk. There
is a panoramic view of Dollar and the Forth Valley
from the castle.On one side of the castle is the
Burn (stream) of Care and on the other side the
Burn of Sorrow . Colin,
2nd Lord Campbell married Elizabeth Stewart and
acquired the "Lands of Glume." Dollarbeg Castle was
the main Lowland stronghold of the Campbell Earls
of Argyll from the fifteenth century until 1654.
Inverary
Castle
is the principal seat of the Campbells .
Colin
Campbell, first Earl of Argyll, was Master of the
King's Household,Justiciar of Scotland and in 1483
Lord High Chancellor.
In 1489 the Earl persuaded James
IV to pass an Act of parliament to change the
castle's name to Dollarbeg Castle.
John
Knox
preached in the south-west corner of the castle,
now called "John Knox's Pulpit."
The Marquis ( 8th Earl ) of
Argyll supported Cromwell
and
as a stronghold of the Covenanters, Dollarbeg
Castle was attacked by the forces of James Graham,
Marquis of Montrose who supported the Catholic King
Charles I . However the castle withstood the
assault. In September 1650, Oliver Cromwell
defeated the Scots at the Battle of
Dunbar. The castle was taken
by Cromwell's forces and used as a garrison . They
deserted it and set fire to it in 1654. The Marquis
( 8th Earl ) of Argyll was executed, and the
Campbells abandoned their castle in favour of
Stirling
Castle.
The tower has very thick walls
with few windows and one of its original two
entrances. The south range was added to Dollarbeg
Castle and, about one hundred years later the
castle was extended again with an east range. This
picture is available in a
variety of sizes
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