Clan Douglas
For a time the most powerful family in Scotland after the Crown, and dangerous enough that James II destroyed the Black Douglases in 1455. 'Good Sir James' Douglas carried Robert the Bruce's heart on crusade.
Ancestral seats
- Douglas Castle, Lanarkshire
- Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfriesshire
- Tantallon Castle, East Lothian
Where to walk in their footsteps
Access, opening hours and admission change. We confirm every site before it goes into an itinerary.
St Bride's Church, Douglas, Lanarkshire
Black Douglas mausoleum with three canopied earls' tombs, including Sir James the Good.
Tantallon Castle, East Lothian
Vast red curtain-wall fortress of the Red Douglases above the Forth.
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Cashel Travel has arranged clan gatherings and heritage tours across Scotland and Ireland since the 1990s, including full gatherings for Clan Gordon, Hay, Keith, Lindsay, Hunter, Dunbar, Graham, Sutherland and MacLaren. We research the family history, build the itinerary around it, and arrange access to places that are not normally open to the public.