The BBC News website has an account of the excavations of the site of a twelfth and thirteenth century castle built by the ancestors of the MacDonalds, the later Lords of the Isles, which was subsequently replaced by a substantial house on two islets in a loch at Finlaggan on the island of Islay.
The online article arose from the publication of the report on thirty years of archaeological investigation of the site.
The BBC article can be seen at ‘Forgotten' royal castle uncovered at Finlaggan on Islay
Wikipedia has an introductory account, together with a map and other illustrations, including Finlaggan, of the Lordship was finally taken over by the Scottish crown in 1493 and assigned, as it still is, to the sovereign’s eldest son and heir. This can be seen at Lord of the Isles
In some ways the bringing of the Lordship under central royal control is indicative of centralising tendencies is other European monarchies at the time, such as the French crown’s determination to draw the Duchy of Brittany into a more centralised France in these years, Poyning’s Law of 1494 bringing the Irish Parliament under the supervision of the Privy Council in Westminster, and the full legal incorporation of the Principality of Wales and of the Marches, including Chester, into England in 1536.
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