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This haunting ruin sits atop a crumbling cliff and offers a commanding view northwest to the outer Hebrides. The castle draws thousands of visitors every year, partly because of its ideal position on the tourist loop and also because of the ghostly happenings that it has become famous for.
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The ghost of the nursemaid, killed in retribution, is still said to wander the ruins. She is apparently kept company by the ghost of Hugh MacDonald, who plotted against the rightful clan chief in the 1600s, and who was starved to death in the dungeon at Duntulm. Seen From the East, with the Western Isles in the Background
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The return route along the shore offers an alternative view of Duntulm Castle. Rubha Hunish walk starts at Shulista which is 24miles from Portree. There is space for about 8 cars in the carpark. There is an old style red phone box at the Shulista road end. The walk is loop totalling 6.2km and takes an average of 2hrs to complete.
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📌 Duntulm, Isle of Skye★★ One of the more popular stopoffs on the Trotternish tourist trail, Duntulm Castle is a textbook unloved ruin. While perched spectacularly on a rocky headland, the castle ruins are surrounded by a fence and signs discouraging anyone proceeding beyond it. You can't see much from behind the fence; anyone venturing
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Duntulm Castle sits atop the cliffs at the far north end of the Isle of Skye. On a clear day there are stunning views across The Minch to the Western Isles. If you follow the A855 from either Uig or Staffin and follow the loop round the north end of Skye you can't miss it. It is approximately 8 miles from both Staffin and Uig.
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Duntulm Castle. Easy • 4.2 (48) Portree, Highlands, Scotland. Photos (37) Directions. Print/PDF map. Length 0.6 miElevation gain 39 ftRoute type Out & back. Head out on this 0.6-mile out-and-back trail near Portree, Highlands. Generally considered an easy route, it takes an average of 14 min to complete.
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Overview Nearby attractions Accommodation HERITAGE RATING: Duntulm Castle You won't find Duntulm Castle in many tourist brochures for the Isle of Skye, but it is hard to imagine a more scenic and dramatic view than the ruins of Duntulm, standing on its sheer cliff of basalt, looking across The Minch to the Isle of Lewis in the distance.
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GNU 1.2 / Bellaqueen. Duntulm Castle stands ruined on the north coast of Trotternish, on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, near the hamlet of Duntulm. During the 17th century it was the seat of the chiefs of Clan MacDonald of Sleat. It is a scheduled monument. Access to the castle is by way of a short track across the top of a sheep pasture that.
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Duntulm Castle. Near the tip of the Trotternish Peninsula is the ruined MacDonald fortress of Duntulm Castle, which was abandoned in 1739, reputedly because it was haunted. From the red telephone box 800m east of the castle, a faint path leads north for 1.5 miles to Rubha Hunish coastguard lookout, now restored as a tiny but cosy bothy.
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Duntulm castle is a ruin on the northern tip of the aisle of Skye. The ruins are accessed by a muddy path between farmers fields but you cannot access the castle itself which is fenced off due to risk of collapse. The scenery is bleak but impressive and the ruin is picturesque with sheep climbing all over.
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Duntulm ( Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Thuilm) is a township on the most northerly point of the Trotternish peninsula of the Isle of Skye made up of Shulista (north Duntulm), south Duntulm and Ghlumaig. [1] History Duntulm was originally a Pictish fortress, forming one of a chain of duns or forts stretching along the north coast of the Isle of Skye.
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Duntulm Castle is a shattered and crumbling old stronghold, long held by the MacDonalds and said to be haunted by several ghosts, in a beautiful cliff top location overlooking the sea out to the Outer Hebrides, on the north of the island of Skye.
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Duntulm Castle is a beautiful ruin situated on the north coast of Trotternish on the famous Isle of Skye. The castle offers a superb defensive location that is guarded on three of its side by staggering cliffs. Now a scheduled monument, this crumbling stronghold is still an absolutely stunning sight to see.
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Duntulm Castle is one of the most haunted places on the Isle of Skye and is said to be rife with restless spirits. One of those is Hugh MacDonald who tried to stage a coup and take over as chief of the MacDonalds of Sleat. He failed miserably and then was placed in the Duntulm dungeons.
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Duntulm Castle still stands its centuries-old vigil on the basalt promontory of the north coast of Trotternish, visitors are free to approach the ruins of Duntulm Castle at any time of the year, on the beautiful Isle of Skye in Scotland.This once-mighty fortress has fallen into ruins, prey to the elements and man's indifference, and was abandoned in the 1700s.
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Perched on a cliff near Skye's most northerly point, Duntulm Castle has a fascinating reputation. Not just as a formidable fortress with a very long history, but as a home to more than its fair share of ghosts. Long before the medieval castle, an Iron Age broch took advantage of this strategic position.