Publication drawing; Plan of Tanlawhill tower-house, buildings and enclosures.

Description Publication drawing; Plan of Tanlawhill tower-house, buildings and enclosures.

Date 6/8/1996

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 382042

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of DC 32535

Scope and Content Redrawn for publication from DC 32428. Plan showing the medieval estate centre at Tanlawhill, Dumfries and Galloway Reduced to little more than a spread of stones, the tower-house at Tanlawhill and its associated outbuildings occupy a broad natural shelf overlooking the farmsteading of Tanlawhill, some 250m to the north. The now ruined square tower lies at the centre of a post-medieval farmstead or toun, comprising a number of turf-banked fields and a series of rectangular buildings on platforms set into the slope. Immediately to the west of the enclosures is a kiln. In 1598, John Beattie, of 'Tanlaw Hill' was executed as a rebel for non-payment of monies to Lord Maxwell, the landowner. The farmstead was apparently still occupied in 1691, listed as possessing three hearths and a kiln in the hearth tax of that year. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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