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Lochnaw Castle, Kinsale Tower

Tower (19th Century), Windmill (period Unknown)(possible)

What is recorded here

Kinsale Tower stands in Dumfries and Galloway as a 19th-century tower with a possible earlier windmill identity hidden beneath its stones. The building may have caught regional winds before becoming a castle, suggesting that breath and fire shared the same address.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Lochnaw Castle, Kinsale Tower as Tower (19th Century), Windmill (period Unknown)(possible). 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.
Lochnaw Castle, Kinsale Tower is a 19th-century tower, possibly built as a windmill, and is recorded in Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment. Its precise location is noted, but the builder and wider historical significance remain unrecorded.

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