Mingary Castle
This castle guards the entrances to the Sound of Mull and Loch Sunart. It was erected inside a wall of enciente shaped to the rock and dates from the 13th century. The main entrance was by sea up cut steps from the rock. Three ranges of buildings stand within the curtain wall . Mingary was probably built by the MacIans of Ardnamurchan . In 1588 when a MacLean of Duart captured the MacIan there was an unsuccessful siege to the castle with Spanish soldiers from an Armada galleon in Tobermory Bay. The castle was garrisoned for the governement in 1745.