Castles and forts in Dumfries and Galloway
The Discover Alone map has 330 castles and forts in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Below are the 60 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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WoodsleeBurial Cairn (late Neolithic) - (bronze Age), Tower House (medieval)(possible)Woodslee is a late Neolithic and Bronze Age burial cairn in Dumfries and Galloway, marked on the national record with….jpg?width=1280)
WesterhallHouse (18th Century), Tower House (medieval)Westerhall stands in Dumfries and Galloway as an 18th-century house built around a medieval tower, a layered monument….jpg?width=1280)
Tower-of-sarkTower House (medieval)Tower-of-sark is a medieval tower house in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It still stands where human hands first…
Torthorwald CastleCastle (medieval), Earthwork(s) (period Unassigned), Motte (medieval)(possible), Tower House (medieval)Torthorwald Castle stands as a ruined rectangular tower in the heart of its village, carrying stone layers from the…
Threave CastleArtillery Fortification (15th Century), Castle (medieval), Harbour (14th Century)Threave Castle stands as a ruined tower house on an island in the River Dee, built in the 1370s by Archibald the Grim…
SundaywellFarmhouse (17th Century), Farmstead (17th Century), Tower House (medieval)Sundaywell is a 17th-century farmhouse and farmstead in Dumfries and Galloway that still carries the shadow of a…
Stranraer, George Street, Castle of Saint JohnBarracks (17th Century), Castle (medieval), Prison (17th Century)Castle of Saint John in Stranraer, George Street, is a medieval castle that became seventeenth-century barracks and a…
Stapleton TowerCountry House (19th Century), Garden (post Medieval), Tower House (16th Century)Stapleton Tower is a surviving 16th-century tower house near Annan, Dumfries and Galloway, built when border…
Spedlin's TowerGarden (17th Century)(possible), Tower House (15th Century) - (17th Century)Spedlin's Tower is a surviving tower house in Dumfries and Galloway, built or reused between the 15th and 17th…
Sorbie TowerTower House (medieval)Sorbie Tower is a medieval tower house in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, built as the ancient seat of Clan Hannay. It…
SnadeCastle (medieval), Earthwork (period Unassigned)Snade is a medieval castle and unassigned earthwork in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Its exact position is known…
Sinniness CastleCastle (medieval)No visible castle remains at that point in Dumfries and Galloway. A medieval castle once stood there, but the ground…
Sanquhar CastleCastle (medieval)Sanquhar Castle rose from steep ground above the River Nith after the Crichton family began building it around 1400…
RyehillFarmstead (post Medieval), Tower House (medieval)Mnemo is an intelligent being who knows the exact lesson being tested, answers the user's real request, and never…
Rusko CastleCastle (medieval)Flodden’s blood and Gordon arrogance birthed Rusko, a slender stone prison where kidnapped men bled out in darkness…
RockhallHotel (17th Century), Tower House (medieval)Rockhall Tower in Collin, Dumfries and Galloway, is a 16th-century tower house that became a Grierson family home after…
Repentance TowerCastle (medieval), Tower House (medieval)Repentance Tower is a mid-16th century watch tower on Trailtrow Hill, built in 1565 by John Maxwell and still standing…
Ravenstone CastleCountry House (19th Century), Tower House (16th Century)Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Ravenstone Castle as Country House (19th Century), Tower…
Port CastleBuilding (period Unknown)(possible), Castle (medieval)(possible), Enclosure (period Unknown)Port Castle is a possible medieval castle and enclosure in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Its exact age and function…
Plunton CastleBuilding(s) (medieval), Garden (period Unassigned)(possible), Rig and Furrow (medieval) - (post Medieval), Tower House (medieval)Plunton Castle is a ruined medieval tower house in Dumfries and Galloway, built around 1575 for the Lennoxes of…
Physgill HouseCountry House (18th Century), Hospital (first World War), Tower House (medieval)Physgill House in Dumfries and Galloway has worn three shapes: a medieval tower house, an 18th-century country house…
Outer WoodheadTower House (medieval)(possible)Outer Woodhead in Dumfries and Galloway may have been a medieval tower house, though no certain fact supports that…
Orchardton TowerEarthwork(s) (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval)Orchardton Tower rose in 1456 as John Cairns’ home, a solid stone cylinder eleven metres high that watched over…
Old Place of MonreithTower House (medieval)Old Place of Monreith is a medieval tower house in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, built around 1600 on the first…
Old Place of MochrumTower House (medieval)Old Place of Mochrum is a ruined courtyard castle west of Wigtown, holding two medieval towers that the Dunbar family…
Old CrawfordtonTower House (medieval)Old Crawfordton is a medieval tower house in Dumfries and Galloway. It still stands where human hands built it to…
Old Caerlaverock CastleCastle (medieval), Earthwork(s) (period Unassigned)Old Caerlaverock Castle stands in Dumfries and Galloway as a medieval castle and unassigned earthwork, its boundary…
Morton CastleCastle (medieval)Morton Castle is a ruined medieval hall-house in Dumfries and Galloway, built in the 1300s by an unknown owner for…
Maiden CastleFort (iron Age)Maiden Castle is an Iron Age fort in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Its earthworks still mark the hill, though the…
Maclellan's CastleCastleMaclellan's Castle stood in Dumfries and Galloway as the historic seat of Clan MacLellan, linking the castle to a…
Lunelly TowerTower House (medieval)Lunelly Tower stands in Dumfries and Galloway as a medieval tower house, its stones marked by centuries of storm and…
Low ArdwellCastle (medieval)(possible)Low Ardwell may have been a medieval castle in Dumfries and Galloway, though no standing wall or chamber is certain.…
Logan, Logan Botanic Gardens, Balzieland CastleTower House (medieval)Balzieland Castle stands in Dumfries and Galloway as a medieval tower house, its stones marked by centuries of weather…
Lockerbie TowerTower House (medieval)Lockerbie Tower rose in Dumfries and Galloway during the sixteenth century, a medieval stone anchor in a landscape that…
Lochnaw CastleTower House (medieval)Lochnaw Castle is a 16th-century tower house on the shores of Lochnaw Loch in Dumfries and Galloway, marked by a 1486…
Lochmaben CastleCastle (medieval)Lochmaben Castle is a medieval ruin on a promontory above Castle Loch in Dumfries and Galloway, rebuilt by the English…
Lochinch CastleCastle (19th Century), Hospital (first World War)Lochinch Castle stands in Dumfries and Galloway as a nineteenth-century castle that became a first World War hospital.…
Lochhouse TowerTower House (medieval)Lochhouse Tower rose above a drained loch in Dumfries and Galloway, holding John Johnstone’s £200 gold and silver hoard…
Loch RonaldCastle (medieval)(possible)Loch Ronald is a possible medieval castle hidden in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The location is known only to…
Loch Maberry CastleCastle (medieval), Fortified Island (period Unassigned)Loch Maberry Castle stands as a medieval fortified island in Dumfries and Galloway, though no date or owner survives to…
Larg TowerCastle (medieval)Larg Tower stands in ruins beside Dumfries and Galloway, a stark C16/17 tower and courtyard built for the McKies. By…
Langholm CastleTower House (16th Century)Langholm Castle is a 16th-century tower house built for the Armstrong clan in Dumfries and Galloway. Its ruined walls…
KirtleheadTower House (medieval)Kirtlehead is a medieval tower house in Dumfries and Galloway, recorded in the national historic environment register.…
Kirkcudbright CastleCastle (medieval), Earthwork(s) (period Unassigned), Core (flint)(neolithic) - (bronze Age)Kirkcudbright Castle stands as a medieval stone tower house within the town of Kirkcudbright, dominating the coastal…
Killaser CastleTower House (medieval)Killaser Castle stands in Dumfries and Galloway as a medieval tower house, its stones marking a boundary between human…
KildonnanCastle (medieval)Kildonnan is a medieval castle in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Its exact location remains unclear because the…
Kenmure CastleCastle (medieval), Moat (medieval)(possible), Sundial (17th Century) (1623)Kenmure Castle is a ruined Gordon stronghold in Galloway where James IV played backgammon in 1508 and Mary, Queen of…
Isle of Whithorn CastleTower House (medieval)Isle of Whithorn Castle stands as a medieval tower house in Dumfries and Galloway, anchoring the village beside the old…
InnermessanCastle (medieval)Innermessan is a medieval castle in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, recorded at a point accurate to the nearest metre.…
Hoddom CastleCountry House (19th Century), Policies (post Medieval), Tower House (16th Century)Hoddom Castle is a large tower house in Dumfries and Galloway, south Scotland, built in the 16th century and expanded…
Hills TowerHouse (16th Century), Tower House (medieval)Hills Tower is a sixteenth-century tower house near Dumfries, built around 1527 for Edward Maxwell, whose initials…
Glenae TowerTower House (medieval)Glenae Tower rose in Dumfries and Galloway during the sixteenth century, a medieval tower house built to watch the land…
Gilnockie TowerCarved Stone (period Unknown), Tower House (medieval)Gilnockie Tower rises from the west bank of the River Esk as a cream sandstone witness to Armstrong defiance. Johnnie…
Garlies CastleTower House (medieval)Garlies Castle stands in Dumfries and Galloway as a medieval tower house, its stones marked by age rather than display.…
Galdenoch CastleTower House (medieval)Galdenoch Castle is a ruined medieval tower house on the Rhins of Galloway, built for Gilbert Agnew of Lochnaw between…
Edingham CastleTower House (medieval)Edingham Castle stands as a ruined four-storey tower built by the Morrisons between 1570 and 1585 near Dalbeattie. The…
East RafflesTower House (medieval)East Raffles stands in Dumfries and Galloway as a medieval tower house, its stones marked by centuries of weather and…
Earlstoun CastleCastle (medieval)Earlstoun Castle is a derelict late sixteenth-century tower house near St John's Town of Dalry that belonged to the…
Dunragit HouseCastle (medieval)(possible), Country House (18th Century)Dunragit House stands as an 18th-century country house built beside a possible medieval castle, anchoring a village…
Dundeugh CastleCastle (medieval)Dundeugh Castle is a ruined medieval Gordon stronghold at the southern end of Kendoon reservoir, built in the 16th…