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Dunstaffnage Castle is located 5 miles north of Oban on the west coast of Scotland. Once the capital of Dalriada, the original Kingdom of the Scots, it was to here that The Stone of Destiny was brought over from Ireland via Iona. Dunstaffnage Castle looks square and impenetrable with round towers. A MacDougall stronghold until 1309, it was seized by Robert the Bruce who then appointed the Campbell clan as its hereditary keepers in the name of the Crown.

Two famous people were imprisoned in Dunstaffnage

During the June 2 1646 massacre of the Lamonts, Sir James Lamont had not been taken to Dunoon; but along with his son Archibald, and his brothers Archibald and Ninian, he had been taken 1st by the sheriff, George Campbell to Inverary. He then robbed Sir James’ brother Archibald, of 1000 pounds; and searched Sir James for the capitulation , but not finding it, compelled him to sign a paper saying his quarrel was unjust, that he repented it, and that he did pass from the capitulation. Sir James was forced to sign this, under fear of death, at the very time that he got the news of the massacre of his clansmen at Dunoon. He and his companions were then sent to Dunstraffnage, in which castle they were detained for four years.
100 years later Bonne Prince Charlie's heroine, Flora MacDonald, was held prisoner here for a short time in 1746.

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