A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Duntulm, an ancient castle in Kilmuir parish, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, on a little promontory, overhanging Loch Scour, 9 miles N of Uig. Built on the site of a Scandinavian fort, it was long the seat of the Macdonalds, descendants of the Lords of the Isles, till they were driven out of it to Mugstot by the ghost of one Donald Gorm. It bore originally the name of Dundavid or St David's Fort, in honour of a Scandinavian king or viking who had resided in the previous fortalice; and seems to have been a splendid structure, so strong as to be impregnable alike by land and by sea; but now is reduced to a mere shell-a fragment of a tower and a portion of flanking wall. A neighbouring hamlet of Duntulm has a post office under Portree. See chap. xi. of Alexander Smith's Summer in Skye (Lond. 1865).
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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