This is a list of castles in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
List Name Type Date Condition Ownership Location Notes Picture Abbot's Tower L-plan tower house Late 16th century Restored in 1990; in use as a residence Private Amisfield Tower also known as Hempisfield Tower Tower house 17th century Still in use as a residence Private Annan Castle 12th century Motte remains sketch of Annan Castle, c. 1560 Auchen Castle Courtyard castle 14th century Ruined Private Also the name of a nearby baronial house of 1849 Auchenrivock Tower L-plan tower house Late 16th century Ruined Buccleuch Estate Auchenskeoch Castle Z-plan tower house 17th century Ruined Only Z-plan tower in Galloway Auchness Castle Baldoon Castle Tower house 17th century Ruined Private Kirkinner Balmangan Tower Oblong plan tower house 16th century Ruined Barclosh Castle Oblong plan tower house Late 16th century Ruined Private Barholm Castle Tower house 15th century Restored as a residence Private Barjarg Tower L-plan tower house Late 16th century Progressively restored since 18th century Barjarg Tower , Douglas history website Barscobe Castle L-plan tower house 1648 Restored 1971 Private Blackethouse Tower Oblong plan tower house 16th century Ruined Blacklaw Tower Oblong plan tower house 16th century Ruined Forestry Commission Bonshaw Tower Oblong plan tower house 16th century Preserved Private Boreland Tower Tower House Late 16th century Breckonside Tower Pele tower Late 16th or early 17th century Ruined Near Moniaive Breckonside Tower or Breconside Oblong plan tower house c. 1591 Ruined Abandoned 1980 Near Moffat Much altered and converted to a farmhouse.Breckonside Tower Brydekirk Tower Tower house 16th century Ruined Private Ruins form part of series of outbuildings at Brydekirk Mains farm Buittle Castle 12th century Ruined Buittle Place 16th century Restored Caerlaverock Castle Courtyard castle 13th century Ruined Historic Scotland Cardoness Castle Tower house 15th century Ruined Historic Scotland Carsluith Castle Tower house 16th century Ruined Historic Scotland Castle Clanyard Castle Kennedy (castle) Tower house 17th century Ruined Private Near Stranraer In the grounds of Lochinch Castle, extensive gardens Castle of Park Tower house 16th century Restored as holiday accommodation Historic Scotland Near Glenluce Leased to Landmark Trust Castle of St. John Tower house 16th century Restored as a museum Dumfries and Galloway Council Stranraer Castlemilk Tower Tower house 15th century Demolished c. 1707 Closeburn Castle Tower house 14th century Still in use as a residence Private Comlongon Castle Tower house 15th century Restored as a hotel Private 19th century extensions Cornal Tower Oblong plan tower house 16th century Ruined Corra Castle, Kirkgunzeon Only remains are those of 17th-century house Private Corsewall Castle 15th century Ruin Near Stranraer Craigcaffie Castle c. 1570 Repaired Ruin Innermessan Class A listed building Crawfordton Tower Trapezoid plan tower house Ruined Cruggleton Castle Motte and bailey 12th century Ruined Private In Wigtownshire Cumstoun Castle Oblong plan tower house c. 1500 Ruined Dalswinton Tower Z-plan tower house Early 16th century Ruined Dalswinton Plan of Dalswinton Tower Drumcoltran Tower L-plan tower house Late 16th century Preserved Historic Scotland Drumlanrig Castle Renaissance house 17th century Still in use as a residence Duke of Buccleuch On the site of an earlier castle Dumfries Castle 12th century Ruined Dumfries Dundeugh Castle L-plan tower house 16th century Ruined Forestry Commission Dunskey Castle Tower house 16th century Ruined Private Portpatrick Dunskey Castle Earlstoun Castle L-plan tower house 16th century Decayed but roof maintained Private Earlstoun Castle, RCAHMS Edingham Castle Oblong plan tower house 16th century Ruined Eliock House Tower house 16th century Partly ruined Subsequent alterations, fire damaged in 1945. Category B listed building. Elshieshields Tower Tower house 16th century Restored Elshieshields Tower, MacGibbon & Ross Fourmerkland Tower Oblong plan tower house 1590 Preserved Fourmerkland Tower Frenchland Tower Oblong plan tower house Late 16th or early 17th century Ruined Friar's Carse Baronial mansion 1873 Occupied as a hotel Private On the site of a castle Galdenoch Castle Leswalt Scheduled monument. Gillesbie Tower Oblong plan tower house 16th century Ruined Gilnockie Tower Oblong plan tower house 16th century Restored as a residence Private Also known as Hollows Tower Glenae Tower Tower house 16th century Ruined Entrance reminiscent of bastle-house or pele-house Hills Tower Oblong plan tower house 16th century Restored c. 1930 Retains barmkin and gatehouse Hoddom Castle Fortified enclosure containing L-plan tower house 1565 Preserved Isle Tower or Lochar Tower Oblong plan tower house 1587 Preserved Isle of Whithorn Castle Tower house 1674 Preserved as a residence Isle of Whithorn Originally known as "The Isle" Kenmure Castle 16th century Killaser Castle Kirkconnell Tower Tower house 15th century Still in use as a residence Private Kirkcudbright Castle 12th century motte and bailey, site next to MacLellan's Castle Greyfriar's Church built on the site Lag Tower Oblong plan tower house Ruined Langholm Tower Tower house 16th century Ruined Lochar Tower Rectangular plan tower house 16th century Ruined Lochhouse Tower Oblong plan tower house 16th century Restored as a residence Private Lochinch Castle Baronial house 1867 Still in use as a residence Private Near Stranraer Old Lochmaben Castle Motte and bailey 12th century Earthworks only remain Lochmaben Possible birthplace of Robert the Bruce, 1274. Located at 2nd green and 3rd tee of Lochmaben Golf Course Lochmaben Castle Castle of enceinte c. 1298 King Edward Ruined Historic Scotland Lochmaben Lochnaw Castle Tower house 16th century Leswalt Large 17th century additions Lochwood Castle L-plan tower house 15th century Ruined Private Also known as Lochwood Tower Lockerbie Tower Oblong plan tower house 16th century Demolished 1967 Site cleared to make way for present police station MacLellan's Castle Tower house 16th century Ruined Historic Scotland Kirkcudbright Mellingshaw Tower Tower house 16th century Ruined Morton Castle Courtyard castle 15th century Ruined Historic Scotland Preceded by a 13th-century castleSketch of Morton Castle by Francis Grose Mouswald Tower Oblong plan tower house c. 1562 Ruined Myreton CastleTower House and later Great House16th centuryRuinedPrivate?Built on an earlier Motte, Seat of the Myreton McCullochs; later sold to the Maxwells, located neat the white loch of Myreton Newbie Castle Tower house 15th Century Demolished 1816. Fragmentary remains Private Held by the Corries, Johnstones and then the Marquises of Annandale. Newbie Harbour was close by Orchardton CastleBaronial Mansion18th CenturyResidentialPrivateOrchardton BayBuilt on top of earlier mansion. Orchardton Tower Tower house 15th century Ruined Historic Scotland Plunton Castle Tower House Ruined Raecleugh Tower Bastle house Ruined Farmhouse, Moffat Repentance Tower Tower house 1565 Preserved Private Robgill Tower Tower house 12th century or earlier Rusko Castle Tower house Restored Private Sanquhar Castle Courtyard castle 15th century Ruined Private Partially restored in the 19th century Sorbie Tower Tower house 16th century Ruined Historic Scotland Sorbie Staplegorton Castle Motte and Bailey 12th century No remains Threave Castle Tower house 14th century Ruined Historic Scotland Tibbers Castle or Mote de Tibris Motte and bailey 13th century No remains Private The ruins lie within the estate of Drumlanrig Castle Torthorwald Castle Oblong plan tower house 14th century Ruined Private Wauchope Castle Motte and bailey / Tower house / Manse 13th century No remains Wigtown Castle 12th century No remains Wigtown Wreaths Tower tower house before 16th century ruins Mainsriddle, nr Southerness
See also Castles in Scotland List of castles in Scotland List of listed buildings in Dumfries and Galloway
Notes
References Coventry, Martin (2001) The Castles of Scotland, 3rd Ed. Scotland: Goblinshead Coventry, Martin (2010) Castles of the Clans Scotland: Goblinshead Pattullo, Nan (1974) Castles, Houses and Gardens of Scotland Edinburgh: Denburn Press