Scotland · Ruin
Dunyvaig Castle
Dunyvaig Castle is a medieval stronghold on a rocky promontory at the shore of Lagavulin Bay on Islay, Scotland. It was long held by the MacDonalds (Lords of the Isles) and saw repeated sieges and changes of ownership before being slighted in the 17th century; only ruins of the later medieval castle remain today.
Its prime
1615
Today
Ruin
As it stood in 1615
The shape it held in its prime.
Perched on a rocky headland into Lagavulin Bay, the castle in its prime was a low, compact group of grey-stone structures and rubble walls rising directly from the rock. Three rectangular, squat masonry blocks (tower remnants) sit along the ridge; curtain walls connect them to the promontory edges. No roofs survive in the photo; in period condition the stone walls would have formed an enclosed courtyard and a fifteenth-century keep on the higher ground above a narrow tidal shoreline.
Step inside
6 places to explore in 1615.
The record describes 6 distinct spots at Dunyvaig Castle — including 1 interior: fifteenth-century keep (interior). Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
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See Dunyvaig Castle with the fires lit.
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