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Urquhart Castle
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Built as a royal castle
in the early 18th century to control the whole upper part of the Great Glen, the place was
last inhabited by government troops during the Jacobite troubles in the 1690s. When the
red coats marched out, it is said they blew up the gatehouse to render the castle useless
to the ennemy.
The Castle was effectively abandoned both as a fortress and a residence by 1700.
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may also have been the stronghold of Brude, King of the Picts, whom St Columba visited in
the 6th century AD. It is from the story of his visit that we first hear of the "Loch
Ness Monster" (Aquatalis Bestia), from whose jaws one of his monks had a narrow
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