The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great Britain. Accompanied with descriptions (1815)
Storer, James, 1771-1853 · London, Published for the proprietors by Wm. Clarke... J. Murray... S. Bagster... J.M. Richardson... and Sherwood and Co. .. · leaf 98
the great hall at its north-westcorner, and is supposed to have been the family dining orsitting-room. There are several other apartments in theupper-stories of the tower. Descending by a narrow stonestair from the south-east corner of the dining-room by a sub-terranean passage, you enter a cell,… … DOUNE CASTLE. of preventing suffocation, and to let down the scanty pittanceof the captive. Tradition (and we have nothing more certain to offer)reports that the Castle of Doune was built by Murdac,duke of Albany, and earl of Monteith and Fife ; yet theaccount of the life of this unfortunate…
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