The castle is built around a 15th-century tower house, with substantial additions in later centuries
It passed to the Campbells in the 16th century. It remains in Campbell's ownership.
The castle is perhaps best known for its literary connection to William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth
However, the story is highly fictionalized, and the castle itself,
which is never directly referred to in Macbeth,
was built many years after the life of the 11th-century King Macbeth.
Cawdor, Invernesshire, scotland