Dunrobin Castle (9)
This is as good a view as I could get of the castle as it was before it was injected with steroids in the 19th century!  

There are semi-circular pediments above the stair-tower windows, with the initials I.E.S and A.C.S.  Nobody seems to know exactly when the stair-tower was built, Canmore simply state that it is '17th century'.  I.E.S stands of John, Earl of Sutherland.  Of the 4 earls of Sutherland that lived in the 17th century, three of them were called John and two of them had wives with the initial 'A'.  The more probable owners of the initials were John, 13th Earl of Sutherland (died 1615) and his wife Agnes (Elphinstone) Countess of Sutherland.
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