Publication drawing; Plan of Gillesbie tower-house and earthwork.
DC 32511
Description Publication drawing; Plan of Gillesbie tower-house and earthwork.
Date 11/1995
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number DC 32511
Category Prints and Drawings
Copies SC 383120
Scope and Content Redrawn for publication from DC 32306. Plan of Gillesbie tower, Dumfries and Galloway Gillesbie, a 16th-century tower-house, lies on the western bank of the Dryfe Water, and is now ruinous standing to first-floor level. Surrounding Gillesbie tower is a substantial earthwork, presumably a barmkin (an enclosure built to accompany a tower-house for the protection of livestock). Alternatively this may be the remains of an earlier 12th-century timber motte-and-bailey castle. The lands of Gillesbie are on record in 1486 as the property of the Grahams, and presumably they erected the tower as the centre of an estate. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Scale 1:500
Medium Ink on film
External Reference Inv. fig. 209
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