{"id":5702,"date":"2009-10-26T17:03:29","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T15:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/bletherskite\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2009-10-26T17:03:29","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T15:03:29","slug":"castle-maol-the-viking-princess-and-the-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/?p=5702","title":{"rendered":"Castle Maol, The Viking Princess and The Chain"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5900\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5900\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/castle-maol11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5900\" alt=\"Castle Maol\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/castle-maol11.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Castle Maol<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kylekin is a small promontory that juts out of the east end of Skye and is crowned by the ruins of Castle Maol. The main wall of the ruin is an impressive eleven feet thick, but ended up defeated by the great storm of 1948. On Febuary 1st 1948, the main wall of Castle Maol cracked from top to bottom. But the castle still stands.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was originally built by &#8216;Saucy Mary&#8217;, a Norwegian princess, wife of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/scottish-clans\/clan-macdonald\/\">MacDonald<\/a> of the time, who used the castle to extract toll from every ship that passed through the Kyles. It is said she had a chain across from the castle to the mainland shore. This would have been some chain! Later, Castle Maol came into the possession of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/scottish-clans\/clan-mackinnon\/\">MacKinnons<\/a> of Strath.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5902\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5902\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/castle-maol212.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5902\" alt=\"Castle Maol\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/castle-maol212.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Castle Maol<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kylekin is a small promontory that juts out of the east end of Skye and is crowned by the ruins of Castle Maol. The main wall of the ruin is an impressive eleven feet thick, but ended up defeated by the great storm of 1948. 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