What is recorded here

Lochinch Castle, Balker is a late 18th Century farmstead in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is not a grand castle at all, but a working home where people farmed, bred animals and kept food through long winters. The name may have come later, dressed up to sound grander than the stones deserved.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Lochinch Castle, Balker as Farmstead (late 18th Century). 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.

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