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 REDCASTLE 281 THIRD PERIOD of the whole being still traceable, but only the north gable and parts of the side walls now remain. These walls are of nearly the original height, and have been crowned with a parapet and angle bartizans (Fig. 233), the double corbels of the former and the projecting corbelling to support the latter being still entire. The walls are faced with good red freestone ashlar. FIG. 233. Redcastle. View from the North-West. The above features indicate that this keep belongs to the fifteenth century. DUNOLLY CASTLE, ARGYLLSHIRE. Dunolly Castle is grandly situated on the top of a precipitous rock some 70 or 80 feet high, overlooking the sea, about a mile north from Oban. It consists of a keep, built on and forming a part of the walls of enceinte of the castle. The courtyard, which is about 90 feet from north to south by about 88 feet from east to west, over the walls, is nearly square on plan (Fig. 234), and the keep, which is in the north-east angle, is set diagonally to the walls of the courtyard. Only the east and north curtain walls remain throughout their whole length, while along