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Campbell sits high in the Ochil Hills overlooking
Dollar. It can be reached by a single track road up
the hillside and a short walk. There is a panoramic
view of Dollar and the Forth Valley from the
castle.On one side of the castle is the Burn
(stream) of Care and on the other side the Burn of
Sorrow . Colin,
2nd Lord Campbell married Elizabeth Stewart and
acquired the "Lands of Glume." Castle Campbell was
the main Lowland stronghold of the Campbell Earls
of Argyll from the fifteenth century until 1654.
Inverary
Castle
is the principal seat of the Campbells .
Colin
Campbell, first Earl of Argyll, was Master of the
King's Household,Justiciar of Scotland and in 1483
Lord High Chancellor.
In 1489 the Earl persuaded James
IV to pass an Act of parliament to change the
castle's name to Castle Campbell.
John
Knox
preached in the south-west corner of the castle,
now called "John Knox's Pulpit."
The Marquis ( 8th Earl ) of
Argyll supported Cromwell
and
as a stronghold of the Covenanters, Castle Campbell
was attacked by the forces of James Graham, Marquis
of Montrose who supported the Catholic King Charles
I . However the castle withstood the assault. In
September 1650, Oliver Cromwell defeated the Scots
at the Battle of Dunbar. The
castle was taken by Cromwell's forces and used as a
garrison . They deserted it and set fire to it in
1654. The Marquis ( 8th Earl ) of Argyll was
executed, and the Campbells abandoned their castle
in favour of Stirling
Castle.
The tower has very thick walls
with few windows and one of its original two
entrances. The south range was added to Castle
Campbell and, about one hundred years later the
castle was extended again with an east range. This
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