Dunollie Castle
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Have a look at our new series of historical snippets in a View from the Reading Room by Tom Ashby McCown.
People have lived at Dunollie for more than 2,000 years. For 900 of these years the Castle and House have been occupied by the Chiefs of the Clan MacDougall, but before that Dunollie was the home of the Kings of Dalriada and Iron Age settlers.
Dunollie has a fascinating history, at times very local to Oban and the domestic life of the Chiefs who lived here, but more often than not the stories mesh into Scottish, UK, and international history, and a timeline of the last thousand years includes iconic names, places and events such as
Robert the Bruce and the Wars of Independence, the Jacobite Rising, George IV and Sir Walter Scott, the Covenanter Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, the First World War.
The Chiefs of the Clan MacDougall have only lived quietly at Dunollie for the last century, before that they went out and engaged fully with the fashions and politics of the day, and travelled to all corners of the world. Great stories; great Chiefs, but also close-knit family, which comes through from the thousands of letters which survive in the Dunollie Archive.
The history of Dunollie is long, intricate and largely undiscovered. From time to time articles and discoveries will be posted on this page. Please send us your research and writings, and we will endeavour to include them in what we hope will be the beginnings of a telling of the great tale of Dunollie.
Contact Information
Dunollie House
Oban
Argyll
PA34 5TT
Tel: 01631 570550
Web: www.dunollie.org
Email: info@dunollie.org