3-053-796 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Queen in the Highlands: ruins of Old Inverlochy Castle, [Scotland], 1873. 'Her Majesty the Queen returned on Tuesday to Balmoral from her week's sojourn at Inverlochy Castle, near Fort William, Inverness-shire, the seat of Lord Abinger...A mile or two from Fort William, and under the very shadow of huge Ben Nevis, the loftiest mountain in the British Islands, are the ruins of old Inverlochy Castle. These consist of four large round towers, with connecting screens; the western and southern are nearly entire. It has been thought to have been an ancient stronghold of the Comyns, in the reign of Edward I., but this opinion is rejected by Dr. J. H. Burton and other good Scottish antiquaries. This place was the scene of a fight between Donald of the Isles and the Earls of Mar and Caithness, in the reign of James I., when the Earl of Caithness was slain; and it was here that the Marquis of Montrose, in 1645, won a great victory over the Marquis of Argyll, defeating him with the loss of 1500 men, as described by Sir Walter Scott in his "Legend of Montrose".' From "Illustrated London News", 1873.