Stonehouse Tower
Tower House (Medieval)
Site Name Stonehouse Tower
Classification Tower House (Medieval)
Canmore ID 66975
Site Number NY26NE 10
NGR NY 2958 6824
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/66975
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Gretna
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY26NE 10 2958 6824.
(NY 2958 6824) Stonehouse Tower (NR) (Site of)
OS 6-inch map, 1957.
One of the numerous border towers which may have been built under an Act of the Scottish Parliament of 1535 that required landed men to raise such defences.
New Statistical Account (NSA) 1841 (J Roddick); Clan Lindsay Society 1911 (No.2, 208)
Nothing to be seen on the ground at this site.
Visited by OS (RD) 16 October 1967.
Note (1997)
NY 2958 6824 NY26NE 10
Listed as tower.
RCAHMS 1997.