What is recorded here

Cruggleton Castle stands as a ruined tower on a high shale cliff above the Machars, where a 13th-century stone tower rose above an older timber motte. It changed hands between Galloway lords, Buchan earls, Whithorn canons and Vaus owners, and in 1569 John Fleming besieged Robert Stewart inside it. By 1684 the castle was wholly demolished and ruinous, leaving only rocks, memory and the shape of a defended home on the sea edge.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Cruggleton Castle as Castle (medieval), Motte (medieval), Settlement (period Unassigned), Tower House (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.

Cruggleton Castle was built in the medieval period, likely as a defensive structure by a local landholding family. It is remembered for its motte-and-bailey design and its role in the regional medieval landscape of southern Scotland.

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