Archaeology Notes

Event ID 727657

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX44SW 6 4487 4038

(NX 4487 4038) Castle (NR) (Site of)

OS 6" map (1957)

A castle, said to have been that of the Bishops of Galloway, stood on Castle Hill, at the E end of Whithorn. Its site has long been under cultivation. Truckell mentions "the Bishops castle of Balnespik at the church of Candida Casa" (ie, Whithorn Priory - NX44SW 5, which is c.400m W of this site).

P H M'Kerlie 1870; A E Truckell and J Williams 1967

There is no trace of a castle at the published site. No further information.

Visited by OS (DWR) 16 January 1973.