From Mary Queen of Scots to Sam Heughan, from the Wars of Independence to the Jacobite Rebellions, Kenmure Castle has seen it all.

Sources: Lands of Galloway and their Owners, various volumes by PH McKerlie. Published by William Patterson, Edinburgh, 1877. https://dumgal.inforlib.uk/iguana/www.main.cls?surl=search&p=*#recordId=1.237054&srchDb=1_STOCK

Galloway Gossip by Robert de Bruce Trotter. Published 1901. https://dumgal.inforlib.uk/iguana/www.main.cls?surl=search&p=*#recordId=1.313263&srchDb=1_STOCK

East Galloway Sketches by Alexander Trotter. Published by Adam Rae, Castle Douglas, 1901. https://dumgal.inforlib.uk/iguana/www.main.cls?surl=search&p=*#recordId=1.313240&srchDb=1_STOCK

Rambles in Galloway by Malcolm McLachlin Harper. Published by R G Mann, Dumfries, 1908 https://dumgal.inforlib.uk/iguana/www.main.cls?surl=search&p=*#recordId=1.175935&srchDb=1_STOCK

Scotland’s Lost Gardens by Marilyn Brown. Published by Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Edinburgh, 2012 https://dumgal.inforlib.uk/iguana/www.main.cls?surl=search&p=*#recordId=1.566294&srchDb=1_STOCK

The Border Towers of Scotland 2 by Alistair M T Maxwell-Irving. Dumfries, 2014 https://dumgal.inforlib.uk/iguana/www.main.cls?surl=search&p=*#recordId=1.643272&srchDb=1_STOCK

Canmore; https://canmore.org.uk/site/64213/kenmure-castle , accessed 22/06/2022

Many thanks to Galloway Then and Now for the footage of Kenmure Castle and Dumfries and Galloway Libraries for the books and support.

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