The Spanish were defeated by the English and shipped back to prison in Leith. The Jacobites also were defeated one month later. The castle lay in ruins for over200 years. A MacRae rebuilt the castle from 1912 to 1932 and it cost million pounds. We had to duck to get through every door and the beds were too short for anyone I know to have slept in comfortably.
Castles are dank, dark old stone buildings.
Every corner you turn you are amazed that people could live in them. Just to imagine what life must have been like hurts your head. But there is a simple beauty in this castle and much history. If you close your eyes you can almost feel the ghosts walking past you. This particular castle was where part of Braveheart was filmed.