What is recorded here
Red Castle, Haugh of Urr, is a cairn in Dumfries and Galloway, recorded without a period because no one has dated the stones or explained why they were stacked. The name suggests a lost fortress, yet the haugh may have hidden a boundary marker, a burial pile, or a child's game grown into local truth. Whatever it marks, the red earth and quiet water still keep the shape, waiting for someone to stop calling it a castle and ask what it was really built to do.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Red Castle, Haugh of Urr as Cairn (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 100m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
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Places near here
Urr Parish ChurchBurial Ground (17th Century), Church (19th Century) - (early 20th Century), Church (early 20th Century) (1914), Church (early 17th Century) - (mid 18th Century), Church (mid 18th Century) - (early 19th Century) · 362 yd
Urr ManseSundial (period Unassigned) · 439 yd
Redcastle, Haugh of UrrStanding Stone (prehistoric), Stone(s) (period Unassigned) · 723 yd
Haugh of Urr, War MemorialWar Memorial (20th Century) · 737 yd
Barscone WoodWood · 1.2 mi
Barluith HillMountain / peak · 1.8 mi
Edingham CastleTower House (medieval) · 2.2 mi
Buittle HillMountain / peak · 2.3 mi
Buittle PlaceTower House (medieval) · 2.4 mi
Dalbeattie, CemeteryCemetery (19th Century) · 2.4 mi
Bar Hill PlantationForest · 2.6 mi
The Granite GardenMemorial · 2.6 mi