Harelaw Tower
Tower House (Medieval)
Site Name Harelaw Tower
Classification Tower House (Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) 'Hector Of Ye Harlawe'
Canmore ID 67848
Site Number NY47NW 5
NGR NY 4349 7902
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/67848
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Canonbie
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY47NW 5 4349 7902.
(NY 4349 7902) Harelaw Tower (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1957)
'Hector of ye Harelawe' tower, seen on a map of 1590, was the stronghold of Hector Armstrong, freebooter, who betrayed the Earl of Northumberland to the Regent Murray in the hope of reward. (Murray was assassinated in 1570 - NT07NW 39).
New Statistical Account (NSA) 1841 (J Donaldson); J and R Hyslop 1912
No trace of Harlaw Tower survives.
Visited by OS (RD) 18 December 1970
Note (1981)
Harelaw Tower NY47NW 5
The tower of 'Hector of ye harlawe' cannot be located. A map of 1590 notes it to the NE of the junction of the Archer Beck with the River Liddle (NY 419 763), but the New Statistical Account places it 'At no great distance' from Penton Linns (NY 431 773) while the Ordnance Survey suggest that it stood at NY 434 790, 700m ENE of Harelawhill farmhouse and in an area now covered by a forestry plantation.
RCAHMS 1981.
(NSA, iv, Dumfries, 489; Name Book, Dumfries, No. 4, p. 111; Hyslop and Hyslop 1912, 320; Graham 1914, 137-8).
Note (1997)
NY 4349 7902 NY47NW 5
Listed as tower.
RCAHMS 1997.
