Dun Chalain, an iad air a chreidheas gu bhi Dun Chalain is a Highland place of residence in Inverness-shire, Scotland, which was first occupied in 1450, and has since been the home of a family surnamed Stewart. The Stewarts of Dun Chalain have been a vigorous race, and their history is connected with that of the country. In 1500, James Stewart followed James IV. to Flodden Field, and was slain there. During the troubles of the seventeenth century, they espoused the cause of Charles I., and suffered in consequence. Dun Chalain passed from father to son till 1725, when it was inherited by Alexander Stewart, representative of a branch which had settled in Ireland. He improved the estate, and left it to a son, who followed him in 1752. The grandson, Alexander, was bred to the law, and rose to be sheriff-depute of Inverness-shire. He died in 1830; and was succeeded by his son James, a writer to the signet, who died in 1860, and was followed by his brother John. The present proprietor, John Stewart, was born in 1816.
Original dispatch: BBC Inside Science