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Publication Account

Date 1986

Event ID 1017396

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017396

It is likely that Polmaddy was a joint tenancy farm and, although on record from the early 16th century, most of the surviving remains probably date from the last phases of occupation prior to the abandonment of the site in the early 19th century. The most substantial buildings are a mill and an inn, the latter standing close to the old Kirkcudbright-Ayrshire pack road. At the centre of the township there is an irregular pattern of enclosed fields, and much of the surrounding ground bears the tell-tale corrugations of old ploughing or rig-cultivation. Associated with these arable plots are the remains of no less than five corn-drying kilns. The drystone rubble foundations of the other buildings have few diagnostic features; one at least has a low-level byre drain, and some may have served as byre-dwellings.

Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: Dumfries and Galloway’, (1986).

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