Lochnaw Castle

{{Short description|Castle in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox military installation

|name=Lochnaw Castle

|location= Near Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
UK {{gbmapping|NW991628}}

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|image=Lochnaw Castle.jpg

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|caption=The tower in 2007

|map_type = Scotland Dumfries and Galloway

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|map_caption = Shown within Dumfries and Galloway

|type=Tower house

|built=16th century; extended in 17th and 18th centuries

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|materials=Stone

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|condition=Preserved

|ownership=Private

|open_to_public= No

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Lochnaw Castle is a 16th-century tower house five miles from the town of Stranraer, in the historical county of Wigtownshire, Scotland. The central square tower, five storeys high, formed part of the new castle.

File:Lochnaw.jpg

Lochnaw Castle shows four periods of construction – a simple 16th-century keep, 17th- and 18th-century domestic dwellings, and a mansion-house, which was later demolished. There is a plaque bearing the date 1486, on the SE wall of the keep. A chapel, built in 1704, was demolished c. 1953.The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS)

An earlier, ruined castle stands on an island in the nearby Lochnaw Loch. A royal castle, this was given to the Agnews in 1363, but was sacked by Archibald The Grim, 3rd Earl of Douglas in 1390, and subsequently dismantled.Castles of the Clans, Martin Coventry

The Agnews remained in the new castle until 1948.{{Cite web |title=History – Lochnaw Castle |url=https://www.lochnawcastle.co.uk/history/ |access-date=2023-01-17}} The castle, located by the loch, is occupied as a private residence.