What is recorded here

Glasclune Castle is a ruined tower house from about 1600, built by the Hering family on a steep slope above the Glasclune Burn. Its thin walls and unusual shape suggest pride rather than defence, with a round stair tower set into a re-entrant angle and a long range extending east. The Hering line ended when George Heryng died without heirs in 1615, the castle passed to the Blair family, and it may have been destroyed after the 1715 Rising because the Blairs supported the Jacobite cause.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Glasclune Castle as Socketed Stone (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1km. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Glasclune Castle is a medieval socketed stone tower, likely built in the 15th or 16th century, and is associated with the historical region of Galloway in Scotland. It is remembered as a rare example of a defensive structure reflecting the turbulent border and Highland-Lowland dynamics of the period.

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