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Latitude: 54.9167 / 54°54'59"N
Longitude: -5.1315 / 5°7'53"W
OS Eastings: 199390
OS Northings: 562485
OS Grid: NW993624
Mapcode National: GBR FHQQ.66T
Mapcode Global: WH1R1.4PP5
Plus Code: 9C6PWV89+M9
Entry Name: Kinsale Tower
Listing Name: Lochnaw, Kinsale Tower
Listing Date: 20 July 1972
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 346667
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB13501
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200346667
Location: Leswalt
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Stranraer and the Rhins
Parish: Leswalt
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
Tagged with: Tower
1820 (dated). Circular tower. Rubble. Tapered up to rubble string course. Crenellated parapet; coped between merlons. Sandstone panel to W below band course; inscribed "Built by John 26th Lord Kingsale August 1820".
Kinsale Tower is very overgrown. The tower is marked on the OS Map of 1847 as "Craighead Tower", taking its name from the hill upon which it is situated; it is marked on the OS Map of 1894 as "Kinsale Tower". Donnachie and Stewart suggest that Kinsale Tower was possibly a windmill before serving as a lookout tower, although Hume and Douglas et al consider that it was built as a lookout tower. The tower was
apparently built by John, 26th Lord Kingsale, whose daughter Martha de Courcy married Andrew Agnew, son of the 6th Bart., in 1792. It is possible that the tower was just built as a family monument.
See separate listings for Lochnaw: Boathouse; Bridge; Lochnaw Castle; Garden House; Kathleen Cottage (former Garchrie Lodge) and Gatepiers; Larbrax Lodge; Noel Lodge; Old Lochnaw Castle; Walled Garden.
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