Clan Campbell - Mingary Castle - Photo Print MacLaine of Lochbuie The Gordons took possession of

The Gordons took possession of it in 1535

framed & mounted landscape photograph print of Balquhidder

A large moss-covered oak fills the left of the frame

a landscape long contested between the two great powers of the western Highlands

The castle later passed to the Sutherlands and then to the Mackays as the balance of power in the far north shifted across the generations

Clan Campbell - Mingary Castle - Photo Print MacLaine of Lochbuie The Gordons took possession ofPhotographer Aly Wight took this photograph of Mingary Castle on the Ardnamurchan peninsula, one of the most remote corners of the Scottish mainland. The Campbells acquired this sea girt fortress from the MacIans of Ardnamurchan, extending their influence far beyond their Argyll heartland to the very tip of the west coast. Holding Mingary meant controlling the sea approaches between the Sound of Mull and the open Atlantic. It was never an easy place