Publication Account
Date 1978
Event ID 1017900
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017900
The friary of the Greyfriars at Kirkcudbright was the eighth and last of the conventual friaries of the Scottish Greyfriars to be founded in the kingdom (Dunlop, 1956-57, 127). It was established in Kirkcudbright by James II after his marriage in 1449 (Cowan and Easson, 1976, 127). The conventual buildings were destroyed in the early 1580s when Sir Thomas MacLellan used them to construct his townhouse. The friary church was used as the parish church until it was pulled down in 1730. All that remains of that church is the so-called MacLellan's aisle, burial place of that family. The cloisters, gardens and domestic buildings of the friary would have been under the site now occupied by MacLellan's Castle and a putting green (MacLeod, 1973, 22).
Information from ‘Historic Kirkcudbright: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1978).