Breckonside
Gatehouse Classification - Not available
Has been described as a Possible Peel-house
There are masonry ruins/remnants remains
| Name | Breckonside |
| Alternative Names | |
| Medieval County | |
| Historic Country | Dumfriesshire |
| Modern Authority | Dumfries and Galloway |
| 1974 Authority | Dumfries and Galloway |
| Civil Parish | Glencairn |
(NX 84068891) Breckonside Tower (NR) (Remains of) (OS 6 map (1957))
The ruins at this site consist of Breckonside Tower to the W, measuring 29ft 6 ins by 21ft. Its 4 to 5ft thick walls stand 3ft high. There is an adjoining outbuilding to the N, and another 5ft distant to the E. Their walls are reduced to turf-covered mounds. (RCAHMS 1920, visited 1912)
John Maxwell of 'Brakensyd' is mentioned in 1552-3. (Information from OS Recorder (IF) 26 November 1976)
The remains of Breckonside Tower (Mr Geddes, Straith, Nr Dunscore) are generally as described by the RCAHMS. The walling of the tower is 1.2m thick and up to 1.0m high and that of the outbuildings is 0.9m wide and 0.8m high. Surveyed at 1:2500. (Visited by OS (BS) 25 August 1977)
Breckonside Tower and an adjacent building are situated towards the end of a slight spur to the E of the Laggan Burn. The tower (Nith 206) measures 5m from NNE to SSW by 4m transversely within faced-rubble walls betweeen 1.2m and 1.4m in thickness and up to 1.1m in height. An outshot on the NNE end of the tower extends for 4.6m The second building (Nith 207) lies approximately at right angles to the NNE end of the tower outshot and measures 9.5m from E to W by 4.2m transversely witihin stone footings 1m in thickness and 0.6m in height. The entrance is in the S side and there is an outshot on the E end extending for 9m. (Nith 206, 207) (Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 28 January 1992) (Canmore)
This site is a scheduled monument protected by law
Not Listed
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
| OS Map Grid Reference | NX84068891 |
| Latitude | 55.18089 |
| Longitude | -3.82217 |
| Eastings | 284060 |
| Northings | 588910 |
| Length | 5m |
| Width | 4m |
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| Vault Comment | |
| Orientation | 23 |
| Orientation Comment | |
| Wall Thickness 1 | 1.2m |
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