Dunderave Castle (3)
Dundarave is an L-plan tower-house, with a square stair-tower in the re-entrant and a round tower on the outer angle (shown here).  It has the usual vaulted ground floor, one room of which is the kitchen and another the wine cellar, with the usual private stair to the 1st floor.   The Hall on the first floor is a fine apartment, with a garderobe and wall cupboards and a private stair to the family bedrooms above.  Unlike many other castle extensions, those added here are low and do not detract too much from the elegance of the original building.

The house visible on the far side of the loch, is Ardkinglas House, formerly the seat of the Campbells of Ardkinglas, one of the more important (even notorious) cadet lines of that great clan.  The Ardkinglas Campbells eventually obtained Dundarave, as I shall explain later, by a typically Campbell stratagem! 

The current owners clearly enjoy modern sculpture!  The bronze horse at bottom right was cast in London in 2005 by Dido Crosby.  The significance of the dead giants around the flag-pole I am unaware of!
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