What is recorded here

Finlaggan Castle stands on Eilean Mor in Loch Finlaggan, Islay, a medieval castle and hall whose stones still touch the water. It is the kind of place where claught hands may have rowed across dark loch at dawn, carrying butter, salt or news to a hall that no longer shows its rooms. The sea kept the boundary, and the castle kept the shape of power. What is missing is not empty; it is waiting to be imagined without inventing.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Islay, Loch Finlaggan, Eilean Mor, Finlaggan Castle as Building(s) (medieval), Castle (medieval), Hall (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Finlaggan Castle was built by the Lords of the Isles, a powerful Gaelic-Norse dynasty, during the medieval period, with significant activity in the 13th to 15th centuries. It is important as a historical and archaeological site associated with the political and maritime power of the Western Isles of Scotland.

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