CASTLES

ardtornish castle. 692426; 14th-cent. tower house, lower walls only; outlines of 4 buildings to E of Castle (2 of them large), and of another large structure to its N; much decayed by the 1860s, pointed in 1873; a major restoration programme by Ross and Macbeth of Inverness projected for 1891–2, but not executed; further repaired with the addition of a spurious window in the S wall in 1910 and 1914–15 (Photographs (Gertrude Smith); Astley diary, 4 Oct. 1873; MacGibbon, D. and Ross, T. (1887–92), iii (1889), 122–4; Ross and Macbeth's ‘Sketch for restoring Ardtornish Castle 1892’, dated Jan. 1891, AP; Photographs (Sinclair); Account sheets, 1910, 1914, 1915, AP).

kinlochaline castle. 697476; 15th-cent. tower house; extensively damaged by the 1860s, with huge vertical gashes in the masonry of the E and W walls; restored, probably by Ross and Macbeth, with internal wooden floors, much new stonework and a good deal of imagination, in 1890; the tall roof-ridge of the restoration lowered in the 1920s (Photographs (Gertrude Smith); MacGibbon, D. and Ross, T. (1887–92), iii (1889), 168–70; Photographs (Sinclair); Donaldson, M. E. M. ([1926]), 313–17, and plate facing p. 311; undated plans, AP).

glensanda castle (Caisteal na Gruagaich, Nagair, en-Coer, Mearnaig; in Ardgour parish, but included to complete the list of castles in the Morvern peninsula). 824468; 15th-cent. tower house; unrestored beyond minimal pointing, and with walls almost up to full height in some places (MacGibbon, D. and Ross, T. (1887–92), iii (1889), 170–2).