Duntulm Castle Phone Case

Duntulm Castle looking out over Tulm Island and the hills of Harris in the distance. Duntulm Castle stands ruined on the north coast of the Isle of Skye in Scotland near the hamlet of Duntulm. The main structure of the castle, about 25 metres by 4.5 metres, was built in the 14th and 15th centuries. A tower was added in the 17th century and an additional house, 10 by 5 metres, a little later still. The castle was abandoned in the early 1730s. According to one local legend, the castle was abandoned after the infant son of the chieftain who dwelt there at the time, in the charge of a nursemaid, fell from a window and was dashed on the rocks below. As a punishment, the nursemaid was set adrift on the North Atlantic in a small boat. The ruins...