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Castle Clanyard
Tower House (Medieval)
Site Name Castle Clanyard
Classification Tower House (Medieval)
Canmore ID 60980
Site Number NX13NW 2
NGR NX 10850 37428
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/60980
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkmaiden
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX13NW 2 10850 37428
(NX 1085 3742) Castle Clanyard (NR) (Remains of)
OS 6" map (1957)
Only a portion of the W wall of this keep remains, varying from 10' to 20' high and 2'6" thick; it has evidently been of late date. It belonged to the Gordon Family, and in 1684, Symson described it as "having been of old a very great house, but now something ruinous." M'Kerlie, however, says that the remains do not give the idea that it was a building of much importance.
RCAHMS 1912, visited 1911; A Symson 1684; P H M'Kerlie 1870
The remains consist of a length of the W wall 5.2m long by 0.9m thick, and part of the N wall 2.5m long.
Name confirmed.
Visited by OS (DWR) 27 January 1972
The remains of tower-house, probably dating to the late 16th century, stand in a field 70m ENE of Low Clanyard farmsteading, and comprise a substantial part of the W gable (6.5m high, 5.4m wide and 0.7m thick) and a fragment of its adjoining N wall. The gable incorporates three internally splayed windows and the cut-back haunches for a ground-floor vault. The tower was built for the Gordons of Clanyard and is recorded as ruinous in 1684. The fragment of a stone bearing a carved guilloch mofit, now incorporated internally in the S corner of the meal-barn at Castle Clanyard (NX1063 3707), has probably been derived from the tower.
W Macfarlane 1906-8; P H M'Kerlie 1906; RCAHMS 1912; 1985, visited June 1984.
