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Dunglass Castle and Henry Bell Monument. by The Jacobite

Dunglass Castle is thought to have been built some time in the 14th century, although it’s early history isn’t known. However in 1439 it was granted to Sir John Colquhoun who was beaten in a skirmish with the MacFarlanes of Arrochar in 1592 and fled to Bannachra Castle where he was killed by an archer who fired an arrow through a window. From 1893 until 1899 the designer Talwin Morris owned and lived at Dunglass Castle, and carried out some work on the interiors. In 1899 he sold the property to his best friend Charles Macdonald, the lawyer brother of the artist Margaret Macdonald who would later marry Charles Rennie Mackintosh who designed the interiors, in particular the drawing room and dining room. An obelisk erected in 1838 is the Monument to Henry Bell who designed the paddle-steamer Comet. Launched at Port Glasgow in 1812, it provided the first regular steamship service on the River Clyde and paved the way for the Clyde’s place as a centre of shipbuilding and marine engineering.
Dunglass Castle is a tourist attraction, one of the Castles in Bowling, United Kingdom. It is located: 14 km from Erskine, 14 km from Dumbarton, 900 km from Liverpool. Read further
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