Early Scottish castles were stone tower houses and mottes with protective baileys. By the 13th century, curtain-walled ...

A wooden drawbridge provided access across the moat. The stone castles that we recognize today as emblematically medieval appeared from the 11th and 12th centuries onward, having developed out of ...

the gardens of Blarney Castle spin a tale as unique as the stone itself. Stop by the Bog Garden, where a trio of 600-year-old yew trees sits alongside a gently trickling waterfall. Or, in early ...