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Barholm Castle

📍 Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

3.5 ★★★½ 28 reviews

About

Barholm Castle is a tower house located 5 miles (8.0 km) south-west of Gatehouse of Fleet, in Kirkcudbrightshire, Galloway, Scotland. The tower dates back to the late 15th century, and it was a stronghold of a branch of the MacCulloch family. The present form of the castle dates from rebuilding in the 16th or 17th century, and in the early 2000s, it was restored from a roofless state to residential use. The tower is sometimes identified with the fictional Ellangowan, in Sir Walter Scott's Guy Mannering.

Built around 1560 by the McCullochs. John Knox, the Scottish Reformation leader, is believed to have sheltered here with John McCulloch before fleeing to the Continent. A compact tower house with turrets and crow-stepped gables. Fell into ruin but was superbly restored in the early 2000s and is now a holiday let. Set in the beautiful Galloway countryside near Creetown.