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 |
|
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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 Castle
|
Baronial Mansion
|
18th Century
|
Residential
|
Private
|
Orchardton Bay
|
Built on top of earlier mansion.
|
|
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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