Inverary

Inveraray stands on the western shore of Loch Fyne, near the mouth of the River Aray. It became a centre of Campbell power after the family established a castle here in the fifteenth century. The dukes of Argyll later transformed both the castle and the town, leaving a planned settlement whose ordered streets look out across the sea loch.

In the eighteenth century the third Duke of Argyll began building a new castle and a new town a little farther from its walls. Work on the new settlement continued under his successors, and the remaining buildings of the old settlement were removed by 1775. Robert Mylne's parish church, begun towards the end of the century, provided separate spaces for Gaelic and English worshippers.