Invergarry Castle
Invergarry Castle is a romantically situated ruin on a wooded promontory above Loch Oich on the Great Glen near Invergarry in Inverness-shire, the ancestral seat of the MacDonell chiefs of Glengarry, a powerful branch of Clan Donald. The castle was burned twice in seventeenth-century conflicts and again in 1746 when the Duke of Cumberland's forces destroyed it as a symbol of Jacobite resistance after Culloden. The ruins rise dramatically above the dark waters of Loch Oich, framed by mature woodland, within the policies of the Victorian Glengarry Castle Hotel that stands nearby. The Great Glen, the remarkable geological fault line bisecting the Scottish Highlands from Fort William to Inverness, is one of Scotland's most historically significant routes, followed by the Caledonian Canal constructed by Thomas Telford.