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The Castles History
The name Glenborrodale Orginates from the Viking name 'Glenborrodale' which local legend traces the name a 13th-century Norse settler, a seven-foot-tall Viking warrior named Borrodill, who was defeated by Somerled around 1120 . Long before the castle was built, Glenborrodale Bay even witnessed an episode of the Jacobite rising: in 1746 two French supply ships were attacked by Royal Navy vessels just off the coast here . These early tales set the stage for the rich heritage of Glenborrodale, though the castle itself would only rise in the early 20th century.


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