List of castles in Dumfries and Galloway
Appearance
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 | ![]() | |
Blackethouse Tower | Oblong plan tower house | 16th century | Ruined | NY 24338 74369 | |||
Blacklaw Tower | 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 | ![]() | |
Boreland Tower | Tower House | Late 16th century | NY 0652 9574 | ![]() | |||
Breckonside Tower | Pele tower | Late 16th or early 17th century | Ruined | Near Moniaive NX 84057 88908 | |||
Breckonside Tower 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] | |
Brydekirk Tower | 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 | ![]() | |||
Buittle Place | 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 | ![]() | |
Castlemilk Tower | 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 | ![]() |
Cornal Tower | Oblong plan tower house | 16th century | Ruined | NT112044 | ![]() | ||
Corra Castle, Kirkgunzeon | Only remains are those of 17th-century house | Private | NX867662 | ![]() | |||
Corsewall Castle | 15th century | Ruin | Near Stranraer NW991714 | ![]() | |||
Craigcaffie Castle | c. 1570 | Repaired Ruin | Innermessan NX088641 | Class A listed building | ![]() | ||
Crawfordton Tower | Trapezoid plan tower house | Ruined | NX816889 | ||||
Cruggleton Castle | Motte and bailey | 12th century | Ruined | Private | In Wigtownshire NX483428 | ![]() | |
Cumstoun Castle | Oblong plan tower house | c. 1500 | Ruined | NX682532 | |||
Dalswinton Tower | 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 | ||||
Dundeugh Castle | L-plan tower house | 16th century | Ruined | Forestry Commission | NX601880 | ![]() | |
Dunskey Castle | Tower house | 16th century | Ruined | Private | Portpatrick NX003533 | [6] | ![]() |
Earlstoun Castle | L-plan tower house | 16th century | Decayed but roof maintained | Private | NX618441 | [7] | ![]() |
Edingham Castle | Oblong plan tower house | 16th century | Ruined | NX839628 | |||
Eliock House | Tower house | 16th century | Partly ruined | NS797075 | Subsequent alterations, fire damaged in 1945. Category B listed building.[8] | ||
Elshieshields Tower | Tower house | 16th century | Restored | NY069850 | [9] | ||
Fourmerkland Tower | Oblong plan tower house | 1590 | Preserved | NX908808 | [10] | ![]() | |
Frenchland Tower | 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] | ![]() | ||||
Gillesbie Tower | 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 | |
Glenae 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 | ![]() | ||
Isle of Whithorn Castle | 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 | ![]() | |||||
Kirkconnell Tower | 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 | ![]() | |||
Lag Tower | Oblong plan tower house | Ruined | NX881862 | ![]() | |||
Langholm Tower | 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 | ![]() |
Lockerbie 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 | ![]() | |
Mellingshaw Tower | Tower house | 16th century | Ruined | NT037088 | |||
Morton Castle | Courtyard castle | 15th century | Ruined | Historic Scotland | NX890992 | Preceded by a 13th-century castle[12] | ![]() |
Mouswald Tower | 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 | ![]() | ||||
Raecleugh Tower | Bastle house | Ruined | NT038118 | Farmhouse, Moffat | |||
Repentance Tower | Tower house | 1565 | Preserved | Private | NY155722 | ![]() | |
Robgill Tower | Tower house | 12th century or earlier | NY248717 | ![]() | |||
Rusko Castle | 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 | ||
Staplegorton Castle | 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 | ||||
Wreaths Tower | tower house | before 16th century | ruins | Mainsriddle, nr Southerness NX9529356522 |
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See also
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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