Isle of Skye trail

Armadale Castle

This is a ruined country house and former home of the MacDonalds. The ruined mansion house built in 1815 replaced an earlier building but was abandoned in the early twentieth century. The house is in the Clan MacDonald Skye 20,000 acre estate which houses the Museum of the Isles. The Centre is in the Sleat Peninsula in the south of Skye/An t-Eilean Sgitheanach close to Armadal.

Caisteal Maol

This was built by the MacKinnon's in the late fifteenth century this ruined castle sits on a headland above the village of Kyleakin/Caol Acain on the east coast of the Isle of Skye/An t-Eilean Sgitheanach across the bridge from Kyle of Lochalsh/Caol Loch Aillse.

Dun Sgathaich

This was built on the site of an older fortification this ruined castle which is possibly thirteenth century sits on rocky headland. The remains of the curtain wall can be seen but few of the internal structures. In Celtic legend it is said the rock takes it's name from the warrior queen Sgathaich and the Irish Cu Chulainn came here to learn the arts of war.

Dun Ringill

This is an Iron Age Hillfort hollow drystone wall structure known as a Broch thought to date from the 1st Century BC. The site also served as a fourteenth century residence for the MacKinnons. The site is on the peninsula of Strathaird in the southwest of Skye/An t-Eilean Sgitheanach and is to the east from Kirkibost overlooking Loch Slapin.

Dunvegan Castle

This is the home of the Clan MacLeod and said to be the oldest inhabited castle in Scotland. Parts of the castle are thought to date back to the ninth century with continuous additions and works over the centuries. Visitors can tour the castle and the grounds with boat trips on Loch Dunvegin.

Sky Museum of Island Life

This is a settlement of thatched cottages that depict the life and conditions on the island at the end of the nineteenth century. The museum is open from Easter until October from Monday to Saturday. The museum is located along the A855 about six miles north from Uig at Kilmuir/Cille Mhoire.

Flora MacDonald's Monument

This is behind the Museum of Island Life in Kilmuir/Cille Mhoire cemetery is a memorial to Scottish heroin Flora MacDonald who helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape to Skye. She was buried here in 1790.

Duntulm Castle

These are the ruins of a fourteenth and fifteenth century castle, now in a poor condition that stand on a promontory on the north of Trotternish/Trondairnis peninsula in the Isle of Skye/An t-Eilean Sgitheanach, close to the village of Duntulm.

Kinloch Castle/Caisteal Cheean Locha

This is a late nineteenth century, early twentieth house which is now managed by Scottish Heritage. It is located on Loch Scresort on the island of Rum/Rum in the Inner Hebrides/Na h-Eileanan a-Staigh.

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