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Eilean Donan, Scotland

Eilean Donan, a castle in the Scottish Highlands.

( A small tidal island situated at the confluence of three sea lochs. Originally built in the thirteenth century, it became a stronghold of the Clan MacKenzie and their allies, the Clan MacRae. The present-day castle is Lieutenant-Colonel John MacRae-Gilstrap’s twentieth century reconstruction of the old one ).

Photo by DAVID ILIFF

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( Source : wikipedia.org ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilean_Donan )