Archaeology Notes

Event ID 706884

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/706884

NS84NW 5 c. 8140 4908.

(Area NS 8140 4908) At Wallans, on the south side of the Clyde, and, at one time evidently an islet, part of an old wall still stands, said to be the ruin of a fortalice where at some time Sir William Wallace found refuge. It is sometimes called Castle Wallans and Temple-Hall.

New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845.

Apart from a dyke bounding the river the land referred to is under deep plough; no trace of the wall referred to is to be seen. No worked stones were visible in the area.

Visited by OS (JFC) 18 March 1954.