Driving in Scotland, you never know when you will find a ruin of a castle. Ardvreck Castle and it's newer Manor house, Calda, came into view when we rounded a corner. It's quite the story of the Clans MacLeod and MacKenzie, with the Sutherlands thrown in for good measure. Rumor has it that the place it haunted by the weeping daughter of a MacLeod chief, who was forced to marry the Devil to save her father's castle.
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| A brief history of Ardvreck Castle. |
As there were sheep grazing, Lexie and I stayed in the car. I wasn't sure how she would react to sheep. The rain pouring down had nothing to do with it!
The Manor house was built by the last MacKenzie laird to own the property. He and his wife spent too much money on it and ended up bankrupt! A bidding war broke out between another MacKenzie and a Sutherland to buy the property. When the Sutherland won the bid, friends of the MacKenzie's looted the house and burned it. "No Sutherland shall live in a MacKenzie house!" or some such nonsense. I wonder who ended up with the property and if any money had changed hands? The house was never rebuilt and stones from it were used to build other projects.
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