Archaeology Notes

Event ID 719444

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT74NW 5 7210 4593.

(NT 7210 4593) Greenlaw Castle (NR) (Site of).

OS 6"map, (1957).

Three old ash trees mark the site of Greenlaw Castle which stood in the second field on the N side of the Castle Loan Road going SE. It is first mentioned in a charter dated 1606.

There is no extant description of the castle, but there was a large stone building, near the castle, in which the cattle were placed when a raid was feared. The castle ceased to be occupied as a manor-house after 1729, then it was used by farm servants till about 1820, being demolished shortly after.

R Gibson 1905; J Walker 1868.

No trace of Greenlaw Castle now survives.

Visited by OS(RD) 22 July 1970.