Argyll's Highlands, or, MacCailein Mor and the Lords of Lorne

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St. Kiaran's church at Kilkerran, and the old chapels at Kilconslan,
Kilchenzie, and Killean, will be found to possess great interest.
Of ancient fortresses in Cantire, those at Saddell and Skipness
remain in a tolerably perfect state, and there are other remains of
castles at Tarbert and Kilkerran. Dunaverty, the famed "Rock of
Blood," had its castle so completely destroyed after its famous siege
and terrible massacre that the name is now only attached to a bold
headland. But of Danish encampments and vitrified forts there are
numerous traces, for Cantire had much to do with the Danes, and
Haco and his countrymen made great "harryings" on the tempting
peninsula, and carried away other things besides its fashions, as
Magnus "Barefoot" did. Its nearness to Ireland subjected it also
to other invasions than those by the Danes; so that, what with
Vikings and Hibernians, and what with Macdonalds and Campbells,
and what with Cantire being a chief territory of the Lords of the
Isles, and containing within its boundaries some of their most
important strongholds, its soil was the scene of perpetual feuds and
chronic wars.