Castle Sween (4)
I have noticed many times before, when researching and writing up castles, that the more accounts there are, the more errors there are.  And that process has got considerably worse with the invention of the internet!  Someone misinterprets something, or incorrectly copies something from another source, and before you know it, they (and their incorrect information) are being quoted by others.  And so it is here.  To be fair, these different versions of the 'facts' are not always due to errors, new research and archaeology also result in revision of the facts.

In this instance, everyone is agreed that the oldest part of Castle Sween is the 'castle of enclosure' that now forms the central courtyard.  The confusion occurs with the towers at the north-east corner and to the west.  One of them is correctly known as Macmillan's Tower, and while I believe it is the north-east tower, some sources (including Canmore) suggest it is the west tower.  I'm going to stick with it being the north-east tower.

There is also disagreement about how old the north-east tower is.  Some sources state that it is 13th century, partly due to two lancet windows that have probably been reused from elsewhere,  I would strongly agree with Canmore, who suggest it more probably belongs to the 16th century.
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