Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Machermore Castle

Machermore Castle, an old square tower in Minnigaff parish, W Kirkcudbrightshire, near the left bank of the Cree, 1½ mile SE of Newton-Stewart. Its owner, Robert Lennox Nugent-Dunbar, Esq. (b. 1864; suc. 1866), holds 1013 acres in the shire, valued at £1353 per annum.—Ord. Sur., sh. 4, 1857.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "an old square tower"   (ADL Feature Type: "towers")
Administrative units: Minnigaff ScoP       Kirkcudbrightshire ScoCnty

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