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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 726770

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/726770

NX65SE 28 68237 51068.

(NX 6823 5106) Kirkcudbright Castle (NR)

(In Ruins) AD 1582.

OS 25" map (1893-4)

Maclellan's House, or Kirkcudbright Castle, is an excellent example of 16th century domestic architecture built in 1582 by Sir Thomas Maclellan. The modified L-shape building is four storeys high with two additional attics.

RCAHMS 1914, visited 1911

Maclellan's Castle, a ruin since 1752 is scheduled.

V G Childe and W D Simpson 1954

Maclellan's House stands on the site of the convent of Greyfriars which, being in ruins, was in 1569 granted to Sir Thomas (but see NX65SE 41 - Friary - site of).

D MacGibbon and T Ross 1887

The ruined building is as described above; it is known as Maclellan's Castle.

Visited by OS (EGC) 8 February 1965

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