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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 721510
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/721510
NX06SE 44 centred 05955 60850
Stranraer was created a burgh of barony by a charter of 12 November, 1595; and was erected into a royal burgh by another dated 24 July 1617.
G S Pryde 1952.
Stranraer was erected a burgh of barony in1595 and became a royal burgh in 1617. the town developed around its 16th-century tower and a 15th-century chapel dedicated to St John, which was pulled down in the late 17th or 18th century.
T Pont 1654; Statistical Account (OSA) 1791; New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845; D MacGibbon and T Ross 1887-92; W Macfarlane 1906-8; P H M'Kerlie 1906; E H M M'Kerlie 1916; G S Pryde 1952; 1965; G Stell; RCAHMS 1912; 1985;
The principal town of Wigtownshire founded in 1595 as a burgh of barony under the superiority of the Adairs of Kinhilt, the owners of the Castle of St John, and was created a royal burgh in 1617. Now chiefly remarkable as the main port for ferries between Scotland and Ireland.
J Gifford 1996.
