What is recorded here

Myrton Castle rose around 1500 on a medieval motte in Dumfries and Galloway, replacing a 12th century wooden castle and later yielding to Monreith House. It housed King James IV and belonged to the McCullochs before passing to the Maxwells of Monreith in the late 17th century. Local story claims Sir Godfrey McCulloch rerouted a sewer to spare the brownies’ underground throne room, and they later pulled him from execution in Edinburgh’s Grassmarket.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Myrton Castle as Castle (medieval), Motte (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.

Myrton Castle was a medieval fortress, likely built in the 13th or 14th century, and is remembered as part of the defensive landscape of southern Scotland during the period of conflict between England and Scotland. It is important as a motte-and-bailey or stone castle example associated with local power holders, though specific builders or occupants remain unrecorded.

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