'Coome'
Tower House (Medieval)
Site Name 'Coome'
Classification Tower House (Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Cowholm
Canmore ID 67568
Site Number NY37SW 5
NGR NY 3376 7216
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/67568
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Half Morton
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
Note (1981)
'Coome' NY c. 337 721 NY37SW
A map of 1590 places this tower on the E side of the River Sark, but it more probably stood W of the river in the vicinity of the farmstead of Cowholm, which is noted on the Ordnance Survey map of 1862.
RCAHMS 1981.
(OS 6-inch map, Dumfriesshire, 1st ed., 1862, sheet lix; Graham 1912, 49; Hyslop and Hyslop 1912, 320).
Note (1997)
NY 337 721 NY37SW 5
Listed as tower.
RCAHMS 1997.
