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Galgorm Castle: Myroch Point, Luce Bay, Solway Firth

Steamship (19th Century)

What is recorded here

Galgorm Castle sailed the Solway Firth as a nineteenth-century steamship, forcing Myroch Point and Luce Bay to witness its passage. The vessel still belongs to that busy water, carrying goods, people or fear across a sea that never stopped moving.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Galgorm Castle: Myroch Point, Luce Bay, Solway Firth as Steamship (19th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 100m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Galgorm Castle at Myroch Point is a 19th-century steamship, not a traditional castle, and is remembered as a maritime structure associated with the industrial and transportation developments of the period. Its remains are noted in Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment as a historically significant wreck site.

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