Nether Mumbie
Tower House (Medieval)
Site Name Nether Mumbie
Classification Tower House (Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) 'Munkbiherste'; 'monkeby'; Mumbiherste
Canmore ID 67488
Site Number NY37NE 1
NGR NY 3791 7971
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/67488
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Canonbie
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY37NE 1 c. 379 797.
(NY 3791 7971) Mumbie Tower (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1957)
Border tower of Mumbiherste shown on map of 1590. Fragments are perhaps to be seen in the present farm buildings.
J and R Hyslop 1912
The steading at Nether Mumbie is now empty and there is no apparent evidence of the tower. Dr M Robson (Hawick Museum) has no record of a tower here.
Visited by OS (MJF) 10 October 1979
Field Visit (November 1980)
Nether Mumbie NY 379 797 NY37NE 1
Nothing can be seen of the tower that is noted as 'Monkeby' in 1552 and as 'Munkbiherste' in 1590. Although the Ordnance Survey suggest that it stood at the modern farmsteading of Nether Mumbie (NY 379 797), Graham notes the discovery of 'traces of the tower' in a nearby field.
RCAHMS 1981, visited November 1980.
(Name Book, Dumfries, No. 4, p. 84; Hyslop and Hyslop 1912, 320; Graham 1914, 137, plate opp. p. 133)
Note (1997)
NY 379 797 NY37NE 1
Listed as tower.
RCAHMS 1997.
