Kilhilt
Tower House (Medieval)
Site Name Kilhilt
Classification Tower House (Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Colfin
Canmore ID 60536
Site Number NX05NE 19
NGR NX 0593 5583
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/60536
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Portpatrick
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX05NE 19 0593 5583.
There are no visible remains of the tower-house that stood on a low terrace to the N of the Garthland Burn, 348m NE of Colfin farmsteading. An enclosing ditch, mentioned by M'Ilwraith, is probably a hollowed trackway. John McCaig Esq, the farmer at Kilhilt has in his possession a letter of about 1933, addressed to the Earl of Stair, which refers to the removal of the remains of the tower-house at Kilhilt.
NSA 1845; W M'llwraith 1877; P H M'Kerlie 1906; RCAHMS 1985, visited August 1984.
