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Castle Sween, Argyll and Bute
Location: Grid reference - NR 712 788 (map and directions) ![]() Castle Sween © David Wyatt History of Castle SweenIn 1310 Edward II of England granted John MacSween their ancestral lands of Knapdale,
though Castle Sween was already in the hands of Sir John Menteith. In 1376, the
MacDonalds, Lords of the Isles, gained possession of the half of Knapdale which included
Castle Sween, and during the 150 years that castle was on MacDonald soil, the owners
were the MacNeills and then the MacMillans. Then, in 1490, James IV of Scotland granted
Castle Sween to Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, and it stayed in the Campbell clan until
the 1640s, when Castle Sween was attacked and burnt by Alasdair MacColla and his Irish
Confederate followers during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Map and directionsCastle Sween is open to the public year round, though no staff are on site.View Castle Sween in a larger map |
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