What is recorded here

Corra Castle rose around 1350 as a Maxwell tower house, watching the border valleys for English incursions and rival clans. Its narrow arrow slits and thick stones still suggest a place built to endure siege, feud and betrayal. The Johnstones later used it for Reiver raids before the 1707 Union quietened the border and decay took the halls. Now its ruined tower stands near Dumfries and Galloway, leaving room for imagination about the people who lived, fought and vanished inside.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Corra Castle as Tower House (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Corra Castle is a medieval tower house located in Scotland, likely built during the 15th or 16th century by a local landholding family, though specific builders or occupants are not well documented. It is remembered as an example of the defensive and domestic architecture typical of Scotland’s lowland regions during the late medieval period.

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