The MacSween lords of Knapdale held Castle Sween, one of the oldest stone castles in Scotland, and used it as a base for resistance against MacSorley expansion into mid-Argyll. The MacSween resistance delayed complete MacSorley dominance of the Argyll mainland and maintained a rival centre of Gaelic-Norse lordship in Knapdale through the early thirteenth century.
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