Hume Castle

**Macman** · 13th September 06, 09:53 AM

Thanks for those pictures. You sure make a good tour guide!

**switchblade5984** · 13th September 06, 10:01 AM

wow! i just love the castles i may have to drop by scotland while i am in ireland.....

**pdcorlis** · 13th September 06, 10:09 AM

How great - a double header today - thanks for BOTH tours!

**TimC** · 13th September 06, 11:07 AM

I feel so culturally deprived here in California after seeing these pictures. Of course there are many beautiful things here in California...take my future wife for instance ;-)

-Tim

**Cawdorian** · 13th September 06, 11:12 AM

Great pictures, I have enjoyed all of the guided tours you have conducted. Keep up the good work.

**AckZel** · 13th September 06, 01:25 PM

Oh man, what a dream location strategically, you can see the advancing armies miles away! (*Officer thinking*)

In Finland we have forest EVERYWHERE so all our castles are built on river islands...

**freddie** · 10th September 07, 02:29 PM

Originally Posted by AckZel

Oh man, what a dream location strategically, you can see the advancing armies miles away! (*Officer thinking*)

In Finland we have forest EVERYWHERE so all our castles are built on river islands...

That's really interesting AckZel. One of the theories for the name Hume is that it comes from the old Danish word Hulme, which means 'RIVER ISLAND' !

However, it is almost certainly from the old Scots Gaelic for 'of the Cave', which was the designation of a cadet branch of the MacDuff Earls of Fife, who were known to have been granted lands in this part of Scotland by King Malcolm 111 after his defeat of Macbeth in 1054.

**mkmound** · 13th September 06, 02:09 PM

Originally Posted by TimC

I feel so culturally deprived here in California after seeing these pictures. Of course there are many beautiful things here in California...take my future wife for instance ;-)

-Tim

Take her where???