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Due to popular demand - and because we always like to bring you the pages YOU want to see - Here is the "Castles of Scotland" section.

Over the next few weeks and issues, we will add a castle to this section. Don't worry! it's not the boring old 'here's a castle, and here's where and when it was built' kind of thing, oh no! We are determind to bring you not that, but some historic facts and features surounding each castle that we feature.

The grandeur of solitude that surrounds ancient castles in the Highlands is awesome, writes Leonella Longmore, in her book Land of Castles, published by the Inverness Courier newspaper. The book is an introduction to 16 lesser-known yet fascinating strongholds within easy driving distance of the Highland capital - ruinous and surviving castles not on the usual tourist trail!

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Lochindorp Castle

... this 13th century island fortress-home of the "Celtic Attila", the Wolf of Badenoch. To get to the now-ruined castle means crossing the destitue landscape of Dava moor, until suddenly an expanse of water appears in the distance. In the middle of the loch is Lochindorp....

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Still to come..

1. Redcastle
2. Kilravock Castle
3. Kilcoy Castle
4. Dalcross Castle
5. Rait Castle
6. Inshoch Castle
7. Erchless castle
8. Fairburn Tower
9. Castle Craig
10. Castle Leod
11. Castle Grant
12. Muckrach Castle
13. Invergarry Castle
14. Ballone Castle
15. Loch-an-Eilean Castle

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