Badenheath Tower
Tower House (15th Century)
Site Name Badenheath Tower
Classification Tower House (15th Century)
Canmore ID 45927
Site Number NS77SW 2
NGR NS 71294 72347
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/45927
- Council East Dunbartonshire
- Parish Kirkintilloch (Strathkelvin)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Strathkelvin
- Former County Dunbartonshire
NS77SW 2 7129 7235.
(NS 7129 7235) Tower (NR) (In ruins)
OS 6" map (1922)
Tower (NR) (site of)
OS 6" map (1968)
Badenheath Tower, once a strength of the Boyds, Earls of Kilmarnock (Name Book 1859) was a large fortress or peel surrounded by a moat. It is now ruinous.
T Watson 1894
Only the S half of this oblong keep remains, standing to a maximum height of 40ft (four storeys), while the N wall has been reduced to its foundations. It measures 42ft by 30ft 6ins over the walls, which are 6 to 7ft thick. It is probably of late 15th century date.
D MacGibbon and T Ross 1887
This tower was demolished in 1953 (owner, Badenheath Farm) and no traces of it now remain.
Visited by OS (JLD) 12 February 1954
Field Visit (May 1977)
Badenheath NS 712 723 NS77SW 2
This tower, probably of late 15th-century date and formerly 'surrounded by a ditch', has been demolished.
RCAHMS 1982, visited May 1977
(NSA, viii (Dunbarton), 186-7; MacGibbon and Ross 1887-92, i, 307-8; Watson 1894, 80-5)
