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'Barnglishe'

Tower House (Medieval)

Site Name 'Barnglishe'

Classification Tower House (Medieval)

Alternative Name(s) Barngliesh; Barngleish

Canmore ID 67541

Site Number NY37NW 8

NGR NY 3286 7757

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Canonbie
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Annandale And Eskdale
  • Former County Dumfries-shire

Archaeology Notes

NY37NW 8 3286 7757

(NY 3286 7757). The farmhouse of Barngliesh (NY37NW 38) is erected on the site of a Border tower.

Name Book 1858.

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Field Visit (October 1980)

Barngleish NY c. 328 775 NY37NW 8

Nothing can be seen of the tower of 'Barnglishe' which is depicted on a map of 1590.

RCAHMS 1981, visited October 1980.

(Name Book, Dumfries, No. 4, p. 116; Hyslop and Hyslop 1912, 320, 357; Graham 1914, 137)

Note (1997)

NY 3286 7757 NY37NW 8

Listed as tower.

RCAHMS 1997.

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