AROUND THE WORLD: ELIAN DONAN CASTLE - SCOTLAND

 By: P.L. Year 5B


NAME:
Eilean Donan castle

CITY: Dornie 

COUNTRY: Scotland

CAPITAL CITY: Edinburgh

CONTINENT: Europe

LANGUAGE SPOKEN: English, scots  

INFORMATION ABOUT THE MONUMENT: 

  • Desinged  by  John Mac- Rae Gilstrap the construction began in 1220, as a defense against viking raids, by Robert the Bruce when fleeing from the English invasions of Eduard l. 
  • Eilean Donan Castle is inhabited by a Spanish ghost, and that is that during the battles that took place between the Spanish and the English to seize the Castle that had been occupied from them, a Spanish soldier was trapped in the forest.