Lochnaw Castle
| Lochnaw Castle | |
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| Near Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland UK grid reference NW991628 | |
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| The tower in 2007 | |
| Type | Tower house |
| Site information | |
| Owner | Private |
| Open to the public |
No |
| Condition | Preserved |
| Site history | |
| Built | 16th century; extended in 17th and 18th centuries |
| Materials | Stone |
Lochnaw Castle is a 16th-century tower house five miles from the town of Stranraer, in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The spectacularly located "castle" incorporates a fortalice torhous. The "central" square tower 5 stories high formed part of the "New" Castle.
Lochnaw Castle shows four periods of construction - a simple 16th-century keep, 17th- and 18th-century domestic dwellings, and a mansion-house, which was later demolished. There is a plaque bearing the date 1486, on the SE wall of the keep. A chapel, built in 1704, was demolished c. 1953.[1]
An earlier, ruined castle stands on an island in the nearby Lochnaw Loch. A royal castle, this was given to the Agnews in 1363, but was sacked by Archiblad The Grim, 3rd Earl of Douglas in 1390, and subsequently dismantled.[2]
The Agnews held the new castle until the end of the 19th century. The castle, located by the loch, is occupied as a private residence.