ye Tower of ye Lunne:Corries howse (The Gatehouse Record of the Aglionby Platt)

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Corrie Castle; Tower of Lun

In the civil parish of Hutton And Corrie.
In the historic county of Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
Modern Authority of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
1974 county of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

OS Map Grid Reference: NY19718236
Latitude 55.12900° Longitude -3.26063°

This is certain as the location of ye Tower of ye Lunne:Corries howse shown on the Aglionby Platt.

There are masonry footings remains.

The likely form(s) of this building in 1590 are;

Tower House (gentry)
Pele House ('bastle').

Reproduced by permission of the National Library of Scotland

Description

(NY 1971 8236) Lunelly Tower (NR) (Remains of) (OS 6" map (1957))
A fragment of the S wall, 20 ft long, 25 ft high and 3 ft 8 ins thick remained in 1912. Of old it was called Lun, and was the seat of the Corrie family, probably some sort of wooden stockaded dwelling, till 1484. In 1516 the lands of Lund passed to the Johnstone family who lived here for three generations and probably built the tower. (RCAHMS 1920); R C Reid 1934
All that remains of Lunelly Tower is a rectangular mound of grass-covered masonary, about 2.0m high, probably the barrel-vaulted basement. A fragment of the outer wall face, about 4.0m long and about 1.4m high, is exposed on the south side. To the west, north and east of the tower the foundations of a courtyard wall, now generally a slight, stony bank, 0.4m high, at the SE corner of which are the possible foundations of a small turret. Revised at 25". Visited by OS (WDJ) 20 May 1966.
Listed as tower. (RCAHMS 1997) (Canmore)

Sources of information, references and further reading

Canmore (The online National Monument Record for Scotland) Number 66809.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) MDG7161.

Books
- Maxwell-Irving, A.M.T., 2014, The Border towers of Scotland 2: Their Evolution and Architecture p.99, 171n17, 259, 456
  Coventry, M., 2008, Castles of the Clans: the strongholds and seats of 750 Scottish families and clans (Musselburgh)
  Maxwell-Irving, A.M.T., 2000, The Border towers of Scotland: their history and architecture: the West March p. 201-2 no. 50
  RCAHMS, 1997, Eastern Dumfriesshire: an archaeological landscape (Edinburgh) p. 116
  RCAHMS, 1920, The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Seventh report with inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Dumfries (Edinburgh) p. 108 no. 288 online copy
  Hyslop, J. and Hyslop, R., 1912, Langholm as it was: a history of Langholm and Eskdale from the earliest times p. 320- online copy
Periodical Articles
- Reid, R.C., 1934, 'Corrie Castle' transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society Vol. 18 p. 385-90 online copy
  Ellis, H., 1829, 'Copy of a manuscript tract addressed to Lord Burghley, illustrative of the Border topography of Scotland, AD 1590, with a platt or map of the Borders taken in the same year' Archaeologia Vol. 22 p. 161-71 online copy
Maps (Early maps)
- 1590, A Platt of the opposete Borders of Scotland to ye west marches of England (The Aglionby Platt) British Library online Gallery and Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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ye Tower of ye Lunne:Corries howse (Lunelly Tower)

a location shown on a 1590 map of the West Marches of Scotland (The Aglionby Platt)