What is recorded here

Gilnockie Castle is a medieval earthwork beside the 17th-century Gilnockie Tower, which Johnnie Armstrong built at Hollows around 1520. English raids burned it in 1528, James V hanged Johnnie and fifty followers in 1530, and later raids damaged it again before it was rebuilt with a parapet walk and beacon stance. The tower rose from betrayal and fire as a Clan Armstrong house, while the older earthwork suggests that people had already shaped this white hill long before the stone tower appeared.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Gilnockie Castle as Earthwork (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.

Gilnockie Castle was built in the late 13th or early 14th century by the Maxwell family, a powerful Scottish noble clan. It is remembered as a strategic stronghold in the border region between Scotland and England, reflecting the turbulent history of the area during the medieval period.

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