Archaeology Notes
Event ID 730812
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NY18SE 7 1971 8236
(NY 1971 8236) Lunelly Tower (NR) (Remains of)
OS 6" map (1957)
A fragment of the S wall, 20 ft long, 25 ft high and 3 ft 8 ins thick remained in 1912. Of old it was called Lun, and was the seat of the Corrie family, probably some sort of wooden stockaded dwelling, till 1484. In 1516 the lands of Lund passed to the Johnstone family who lived here for three generations and probably built the tower.
RCAHMS 1920; R C Reid 1934
All that remains of Lunelly Tower is a rectangular mound of grass-covered masonary, about 2.0m high, probably the barrel-vaulted basement. A fragment of the outer wall face, about 4.0m long and about 1.4m high, is exposed on the south side. To the west, north and east of the tower the foundations of a courtyard wall, now generally a slight, stony bank, 0.4m high, at the SE corner of which are the possible foundations of a small turret.
Revised at 25".
Visited by OS (WDJ) 20 May 1966.