What is recorded here

Cornal Tower stands as a broken north wall on a plateau near Moffat, marking a sixteenth-century tower house that once commanded five farms. Tradition claims Scottish kings hunted there before the Carruthers and Johnstone families seized the land, turning royal sport into private power. The ruin still hints at that shift, preserving only enough stone to suggest a building large enough for guests, mills and laden tracks.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Cornal Tower as Building (medieval) - (post Medieval), Lade (medieval) - (post Medieval), Mill (medieval) - (post Medieval)(possible), Tower House (16th Century), Track (medieval) - (post 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.

Cornal Tower is a 16th-century tower house located in Scotland, likely built by a local landholding family for defensive and residential purposes. It is remembered as an example of early modern Scottish domestic architecture and as part of the region's historic landscape.

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