List of castles in Dumfries and Galloway
This is a list of castles in Dumfries and Galloway.
List[]
Name | Type | Date | Condition | Ownership | Location | Notes | Picture |
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Abbot's Tower | L-plan tower house | Late 16th century | Restored in 1990; in use as a residence | Private | NX 97250 66643 | ||
Amisfield Tower also known as Hempisfield Tower | Tower house | 17th century | Still in use as a residence | Private | NX 99203 83800 | ||
Annan Castle | 12th century | Motte remains | NY 1920 6675 | [1] | |||
Auchen Castle | Courtyard castle | 14th century | Ruined | Private | NT 06319 03500 | Also the name of a nearby baronial house of 1849 | |
Auchenrivock Tower | L-plan tower house | Late 16th century | Ruined | Buccleuch Estate | NY 3721 8050 | ||
Auchenskeoch Castle | Z-plan tower house | 17th century | Ruined | NX 91742 58873 | Only Z-plan tower in Galloway | ||
Auchness Castle | NX 10674 44580 | ||||||
Baldoon Castle | Tower house | 17th century | Ruined | Private | Kirkinner NX 42514 53538 | ||
Balmangan Tower | Oblong plan tower house | 16th century | Ruined | NX 65021 45710 | |||
Barclosh Castle | Oblong plan tower house | Late 16th century | Ruined | Private | NX 85478 62474 | ||
Barholm Castle | Tower house | 15th century | Restored as a residence | Private | NX 52073 52959 | ||
Barjarg Tower | L-plan tower house | Late 16th century | Progressively restored since 18th century | NX 87792 90049 | [2] | ||
Barscobe Castle | L-plan tower house | 1648 | Restored 1971 | Private | NX 65967 80640 | ||
Oblong plan tower house | 16th century | Ruined | NY 24338 74369 | ||||
Oblong plan tower house | 16th century | Ruined | Forestry Commission | NT 0521 0673 | |||
Bonshaw Tower | Oblong plan tower house | 16th century | Preserved | Private | NY 24256 72068 | ||
Tower House | Late 16th century | NY 0652 9574 | |||||
Pele tower | Late 16th or early 17th century | Ruined | Near Moniaive NX 84057 88908 | ||||
or Breconside | Oblong plan tower house | c. 1591 | Ruined | Abandoned 1980 | Near Moffat NT 10797 02191 | Much altered and converted to a farmhouse.[3][4] | |
Tower house | 16th century | Ruined | Private | NY 18696 71113 | Ruins form part of series of outbuildings at Brydekirk Mains farm | ||
Buittle Castle | 12th century | Ruined | NX 81915 61628 | ||||
16th century | Restored | NX 81817 61652 | |||||
Caerlaverock Castle | Courtyard castle | 13th century | Ruined | Historic Scotland | NY025656 | ||
Cardoness Castle | Tower house | 15th century | Ruined | Historic Scotland | NX589553 | ||
Carsluith Castle | Tower house | 16th century | Ruined | Historic Scotland | NX494542 | ||
Castle Clanyard | NX 10850 37428 | ||||||
Castle Kennedy | Tower house | 14th century | Ruined | Private | Near Stranraer NX110608 | In the grounds of Lochinch Castle, extensive gardens | |
Castle of Park | Tower house | 16th century | Restored as holiday accommodation | Historic Scotland | Near Glenluce NX188571 | Leased to Landmark Trust | |
Castle of St. John | Tower house | 16th century | Restored as a museum | Dumfries and Galloway Council | Stranraer NX060607 | ||
Tower house | 15th century | Demolished c. 1707 | NY149776 | ||||
Closeburn Castle | Tower house | 14th century | Still in use as a residence | Private | NX907921 | ||
Comlongon Castle | Tower house | 15th century | Restored as a hotel | Private | NY079690 | 19th century extensions | |
Oblong plan tower house | 16th century | Ruined | NT112044 | ||||
Only remains are those of 17th-century house | Private | NX867662 | |||||
15th century | Ruin | Near Stranraer NW991714 | |||||
c. 1570 | Repaired Ruin | Innermessan NX088641 | Class A listed building | ||||
Trapezoid plan tower house | Ruined | NX816889 | |||||
Cruggleton Castle | Motte and bailey | 12th century | Ruined | Private | In Wigtownshire NX483428 | ||
Oblong plan tower house | c. 1500 | Ruined | NX682532 | ||||
Z-plan tower house | Early 16th century | Ruined | Dalswinton NX945840 | [5] | |||
Drumcoltran Tower | L-plan tower house | Late 16th century | Preserved | Historic Scotland | NX869682 | ||
Drumlanrig Castle | Renaissance house | 17th century | Still in use as a residence | Duke of Buccleuch | NX850992 | On the site of an earlier castle | |
Dumfries Castle | 12th century | Ruined | Dumfries | ||||
L-plan tower house | 16th century | Ruined | Forestry Commission | NX601880 | |||
Dunskey Castle | Tower house | 16th century | Ruined | Private | Portpatrick NX003533 | [6] | |
L-plan tower house | 16th century | Decayed but roof maintained | Private | NX618441 | [7] | ||
Edingham Castle | Oblong plan tower house | 16th century | Ruined | NX839628 | |||
Tower house | 16th century | Partly ruined | NS797075 | Subsequent alterations, fire damaged in 1945. Category B listed building.[8] | |||
Tower house | 16th century | Restored | NY069850 | [9] | |||
Oblong plan tower house | 1590 | Preserved | NX908808 | [10] | |||
Oblong plan tower house | Late 16th or early 17th century | Ruined | NT102054 | ||||
Friar's Carse | Baronial mansion | 1873 | Occupied as a hotel | Private | NX125850 | On the site of a castle | |
Galdenoch Castle | Leswalt NW975633 | Scheduled monument.[11] | |||||
Oblong plan tower house | 16th century | Ruined | NY172919 | ||||
Gilnockie Tower | Oblong plan tower house | 16th century | Restored as a residence | Private | NY382785 | Also known as Hollows Tower | |
Tower house | 16th century | Ruined | NX984905 | Entrance reminiscent of bastle-house or pele-house | |||
Hills Tower | Oblong plan tower house | 16th century | Restored c. 1930 | NX912726 | Retains barmkin and gatehouse | ||
Hoddom Castle | Fortified enclosure containing L-plan tower house | 1565 | Preserved | NY155729 | |||
Isle Tower or Lochar Tower | Oblong plan tower house | 1587 | Preserved | NY149776 | |||
Tower house | 1674 | Preserved as a residence | Isle of Whithorn Originally known as "The Isle" | ||||
Kenmure Castle | 16th century | NX635764 | |||||
Killaser Castle | NX 0964 4509 | ||||||
Tower house | 15th century | Still in use as a residence | Private | NX979680 | |||
Kirkcudbright Castle | 12th century | motte and bailey, site next to MacLellan's Castle | Greyfriar's Church built on the site | ||||
Oblong plan tower house | Ruined | NX881862 | |||||
Tower house | 16th century | Ruined | NY361849 | ||||
Lochar Tower | Rectangular plan tower house | 16th century | Ruined | NY028690 | |||
Lochhouse Tower | Oblong plan tower house | 16th century | Restored as a residence | Private | NT082033 | ||
Lochinch Castle | Baronial house | 1867 | Still in use as a residence | Private | Near Stranraer NX106618 | ||
Old Lochmaben Castle | Motte and bailey | 12th century | Earthworks only remain | Lochmaben NY0820882206 | Possible birthplace of Robert the Bruce, 1274. Located at 2nd green and 3rd tee of Lochmaben Golf Course | ||
Lochmaben Castle | Castle of enceinte | c. 1298 King Edward | Ruined | Historic Scotland | Lochmaben NY088811 | ||
Lochnaw Castle | Tower house | 16th century | Leswalt NW991628 | Large 17th century additions | |||
Lochwood Castle | L-plan tower house | 15th century | Ruined | Private | NY084967 | Also known as Lochwood Tower | |
Oblong plan tower house | 16th century | Demolished 1967 | NY136814 | Site cleared to make way for present police station | |||
MacLellan's Castle | Tower house | 16th century | Ruined | Historic Scotland | Kirkcudbright NX681510 | ||
Tower house | 16th century | Ruined | NT037088 | ||||
Morton Castle | Courtyard castle | 15th century | Ruined | Historic Scotland | NX890992 | Preceded by a 13th-century castle[12] | |
Oblong plan tower house | c. 1562 | Ruined | NY062739 | ||||
Myreton Castle | Tower House and later Great House | 16th century | Ruined | Private | ? | Built on an earlier Motte, Seat of the Myreton McCullochs; later sold to the Maxwells, located neat the white loch of Myreton | |
Newbie Castle | Tower house | 15th Century | Demolished 1816. Fragmentary remains | Private | NY17426469 | Held by the Corries, Johnstones and then the Marquises of Annandale. Newbie Harbour was close by | |
Orchardton Tower | Tower house | 15th century | Ruined | Historic Scotland | NX817550 | ||
Plunton Castle | Tower House | Ruined | |||||
Bastle house | Ruined | NT038118 | Farmhouse, Moffat | ||||
Repentance Tower | Tower house | 1565 | Preserved | Private | NY155722 | ||
Robgill Tower | Tower house | 12th century or earlier | NY248717 | ||||
Tower house | Restored | Private | |||||
Sanquhar Castle | Courtyard castle | 15th century | Ruined | Private | NS785092 | Partially restored in the 19th century | |
Sorbie Tower | Tower house | 16th century | Ruined | Historic Scotland | Sorbie NX449470 | ||
Motte and Bailey | 12th century | No remains | |||||
Threave Castle | Tower house | 14th century | Ruined | Historic Scotland | NX739623 | ||
Tibbers Castle or Mote de Tibris | Motte and bailey | 13th century | No remains | Private | NX862982 | The ruins lie within the estate of Drumlanrig Castle | |
Torthorwald Castle | Oblong plan tower house | 14th century | Ruined | Private | NY033782 | ||
Wauchope Castle | Motte and bailey / Tower house / Manse | 13th century | No remains | ||||
Wigtown Castle | 12th century | No remains | Wigtown | ||||
tower house | before 16th century | ruins | Mainsriddle, nr Southerness NX9529356522 |
See also[]
- Castles in Scotland
- List of castles in Scotland
- List of listed buildings in Dumfries and Galloway
Notes[]
- ^ sketch of Annan Castle, c. 1560
- ^ Barjarg Tower Archived 2013-10-29 at the Wayback Machine, Douglas history website
- ^ "Breconside". RCAHMS.
- ^ Breckonside Tower
- ^ Plan of Dalswinton Tower
- ^ Dunskey Castle
- ^ Earlstoun Castle, RCAHMS
- ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Eliock House (LB17256)". Retrieved 18 April 2019.
- ^ Elshieshields Tower, MacGibbon & Ross
- ^ Fourmerkland Tower
- ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Galdenoch Castle,Meikle (SM2018)". Retrieved 18 April 2019.
- ^ Sketch of Morton Castle by Francis Grose
References[]
- Coventry, Martin (2001) The Castles of Scotland, 3rd Ed. Scotland: Goblinshead ISBN 1-899874-26-7
- Coventry, Martin (2010) Castles of the Clans Scotland: Goblinshead ISBN 1-899874-36-4
- Pattullo, Nan (1974) Castles, Houses and Gardens of Scotland Edinburgh: Denburn Press
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