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Cardoness Castle, Galloway, SW Scotland
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Standing on a rocky mound, Cardoness Castle consists of a ruinous late 15th-century rectangular keep and a courtyard, which enclosed outbuildings. Cardoness passed to the MacCullochs by marriage around 1450. They were an unruly lot, and the last of the family was Sir Gordon MacCulloch, who shot Gordon of Buck o'Bield in 1690, fled abroad, returned and was spotted in a church in Edinburgh. He was beheaded by the Maiden, an early Scottish guillotine preserved in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Cardoness had passed to the Gordons in 1629, then to the Maxwells. Visitor centre.

Directions:Off B796, 0.75 miles SW of Gatehouse of Fleet, Galloway.
Ownership:HS01557 814427Ord. Survey Map Ref:NX 591552 83
Open:daily April to September, but weekends only October to March.
Key:P S WC £Click Here for explanation of Key and other abreviations

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