Historical memoirs of Rob Roy and the Clan Macgregor

NOTICES OF LADY GRANGE. 297
her to the place of her ultimate destination. In
this they were disappointed, no vessel having
yet arrived, and they were that night obliged to
remain in the fields. Next day, an apartment
being fitted up for Lady Grange in the old
castle, she was conveyed thither.*
Though this fortress was deserted by the
family, it was still very entire, and was the occa-
sional residence of military, sent, after the com-
motion of 171 5, to check the revolutionary
spirit, again prevalent in the Highlands. At
this time (1732) the soldiery had been removed,
as the country appeared in a state of tran-
quillity, but there still remained a few men who
had the charge of the castle.
The room appropriated to Lady Grange was
situated in one of the lofty towers, commanding
an extensive view of the Atlantic and a wide
range of mountain scenery. It was comfortably
* Castle Tirum was erected in the thirteenth century. It is
built on a peninsulated rock, formerly an island, and surrounded
by the sea, at the mouth of the river Sheal, the north point of
Ardnamurchan. It was the seat of a powerful chieftain of the
Macdonalds, having been confirmed to his family by a charter
from Robert the Bruce, still extant, and dated at Aros castle in
the sound of Mull, in consideration of the assistance afforded
that prince by a Macdonald at the battle of Bannockburn, when
he told that chieftain that his " hope was constant in him," — a
motto still adopted by many of that name, upon their crest,
which represents this castle Tirum.