Lochleven Castle

Lochleven Castle. Engraving by William Millar after G. F. Sargent. Published in The Castles, Palaces and Prisons of Mary of Scotland. Charles Mackie. London. Painted 1831, published 1850.

Lochleven Castle is located on an island on the west of Loch Leven (Scottish Gaelic:Loch Liobhann) which is a fresh water loch in Perth and Kinross, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Peairt agus Ceann Rois, Alba). Parts of the remains of the castle date back to the thirteenth century with the square keep dating from the sixteenth century. It was the place of imprisonment for Mary Queen of Scots between 1567 and 1568. The castle is open to the public daily from the 1st April -31st October and reached by ferry from Kinross/Ceann Rois.

Image: Lochleven Castle. Engraving by William Millar after G. F. Sargent. Published in The Castles, Palaces and Prisons of Mary of Scotland. Charles Mackie. London. Painted 1831, published 1850. 

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