Lochnaw Castle
54°55′11″N 5°08′04″W / 54.919786°N 5.134404°W / 54.919786; -5.134404
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Lochnaw Castle is a 16th-century tower house five miles from the town of Stranraer, in the historical county of Wigtownshire, Scotland. The central square tower, five storeys high, formed part of the new castle.
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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 Archibald The Grim, 3rd Earl of Douglas in 1390, and subsequently dismantled.[2]
The Agnews remained in the new castle until 1948.[3] The castle, located by the loch, is occupied as a private residence.
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- Gazetteer for Scotland entry on Lochnaw Castle
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