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Innermessan
Burgh (Medieval)
Site Name Innermessan
Classification Burgh (Medieval)
Canmore ID 60782
Site Number NX06SE 4
NGR NX 0835 6320
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/60782
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Inch
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX06SE 4 0835 6320.
(NX 0835 6320) Rerigonium (R) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1938)
A town Rerigonium is mentioned on the Rerigonius Sinus, the Loch Ryan of modern maps (Ptolemy's map 2 AD).
G Chalmers 1890
Close to this mote (NX06SE 3) stood the old town of Innermessan (which is the prevalant opinion of the country people) on which place stood also the ancient town of the Romans 'Rerigonium'.
Name Book 1847
No further information was encountered during investigation. There is nothing to be seen on the ground.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 11 February 1963
In 1426 Innermessan is on record as a burgh of barony. The settlement, depicted on Pont's map of 1654, grew up in the vicinity of the motte NX06SE 3 and the Agnews' tower-house (NX06SE 5). In 1684 Symson described Innermessan as a little hamlet or village and noted that it 'was of old the most considerable place in the rinds of Galloway and the greatest town thereabout, till Stranraer was build'.
RCAHMS 1987
The burgh of Innermessan was dependent upon the Bishops of Galloway and not the Agnews of Lochaw as is stated by Pryde. It survived into the 17th century before it succumbed to competition from Stranraer.
A L Murray 1966.
