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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 730617
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/730617
NX99SE 5 9846 9053.
(NX 98429052) Glenae Tower (NR) (Remains of).
OS 6" map (1957)
Glenae Tower, now ruinous, measures 24 ft E-W by 19 ft 6 ins over walls 3 ft in thickness, built of boulders. There is a small window in the S wall, and a bar-hole in the E wall indicates the entrance. This was the home of the Dalzells, who after the 15th century acquired and moved to Kirkmichael Tower, when Glenae seems to have fallen into disuse.
RCAHMS 1920, visited 1914; Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc 1926
NX 9846 9053 The remains of Glenae Tower (name confirmed by W S Brack, a forester, of Ae) are generally as described above. The walling survives to a maximum height of 2.5m.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (BS) 26 July 1977
