Birrens
Tower House (Medieval), Unidentified Pottery(S) (Medieval)
Site Name Birrens
Classification Tower House (Medieval), Unidentified Pottery(S) (Medieval)
Canmore ID 67100
Site Number NY27NW 4.01
NGR NY 219 751
NGR Description NY c. 219 751
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/67100
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Middlebie
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY27NW 4.1 219 751
There was a small tower-house within the Roman fort NY27NW 4.00, datable to the 15th and 16th centuries, and occupied by a family of Carlyles. It is not known whether there was an earlier building, but this is likely. There were occupied dwellings within the fort area until well into the 18th century. Surface finds of medieval pottery have occasionally been made.
W Roy 1747-55; W A J Prevost 1961; A E Truckell and J Williams 1967.
Note (1997)
NY27NW 4.1 NY 219 751
Listed as Birrens, tower and pottery.
RCAHMS 1997 no. 1838
