Broomholm Tower
Tower House (Medieval)
Site Name Broomholm Tower
Classification Tower House (Medieval)
Canmore ID 67663
Site Number NY38SE 20
NGR NY 372 817
NGR Description NY c. 372 817
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/67663
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Langholm
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
No further information. Dr M Robson of Wilton Lodge Museum has no record of a tower at Broomholm (NY38SE 80).
Visited by OS (MJF) 1 November 1979.
Note (1981)
Broomholm NY c. 372 817 NY38SE 20
A map of 1590 and Blaeu's Atlas of 1654 depict a tower at Broomholm, and in 1794 it was recorded that 'an old tower near Broomholm was taken down about 50 years ago'. (See also NY38SE 26)
RCAHMS 1981.
(Blaeu 1654b; Stat. Acct, xiii, 1794, 598; Hyslop and Hyslop 1912, 320, 357).
Note (1997)
NY 372 817 NY38SE 20
Listed as tower.
RCAHMS 1997.
