What is recorded here

Armadale Castle stands as a roofless stone box on Skye, its low walls marking a house that time has half-erased. It appears on old maps and survives as a degraded chamber, suggesting a local dwelling rather than a grand castle. The distinction matters: map names can stretch, but the remains are modest, human and ordinary.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Skye, Armadale Castle as Building (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Armadale Castle on Skye was built in the 16th century by the Macdonalds of Clanranald, a powerful branch of the Clan Donald. It is remembered as a significant stronghold in the history of the Western Isles and as the ancestral seat of the Macdonalds until the 17th century.

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