Carsluith Castle
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Admire the well-preserved ruins of a 16th-century tower house and imagine the life of Scotland’s landed gentry after the Protestant Reformation.
The interior of the castle is currently closed. The exterior and grounds are open.
Carsluith Castle may have started out as a simple oblong tower sometime in the mid-1400s. Various additions were made to the building over the years as it passed between owners. A large hall covered the whole of the first floor, and an eye-catching timber gallery, now long gone, projected from the wall.
The most notable residents were the Broun family, who are associated with nearby Sweetheart Abbey. Gilbert Broun was the abbey's abbot at the time of the Protestant Reformation in 1560, He may have been born at Carsluith.
A carved panel above the castle entrance is now faded and difficult to make out, but we know from records made in the 1800s that is portrays the Broun arms and the date 1568.
Getting Here
Carsluith Castle is 3.5 miles south of Creetown on the A75.
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Address
Wigtown Bay
Dumfries and Galloway
DG8 7DY
National Grid reference:
NX 494 541
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