What is recorded here
Mairi's family farmed Tundergarth Mains beside the tower where her grandmother kept honey in clay pots. She remembered rain striking the chamber pot and her grandmother laughing until the children laughed too. The tower still stands in Dumfries and Galloway, a medieval house reduced to a sharp shadow above the farm.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Tundergarth Mains, Tower as Tower House (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
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Places near here
Tundergarth MainsFarmstead (period Unassigned) · 29 yd
Tundergarth Parish ChurchChurch (18th Century), Church (20th Century), Churchyard (period Unknown), Gate Pier(s) (period Unknown), Tower (period Unknown) · 188 yd
Woody HillMountain / peak · 293 yd
NorthburnFort (period Unassigned)(possible) · 1334 yd
Pisgah HillMountain / peak · 1505 yd
BanksBuilding(s) (period Unassigned), Enclosure (period Unassigned) · 1.1 mi
Scales CleuchWood · 1.3 mi
Hurkleburn PlantationForest · 1.6 mi
Lunelly TowerTower House (medieval) · 1.7 mi
Lockerbie TowerTower House (medieval) · 2.5 mi
Lockerbie War MemorialMemorial · 2.5 mi