The survey drawings by Lewis Petit were not rediscovered until the restoration was almost complete, so the restorers relied on less accurate interpretations. The clerk of works, Farquhar Macrae, is said to have based the reconstruction on a dream in which he saw the restored Eilean Donan.
Wikipedia describes the result as a romantic reincarnation in the tradition of early 20th-century castle revivals, and John Gifford calls the interior a rubbly Edwardian stage-set. The dream is a story told of the work, and no contemporary account was found.
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