Gilnockie Tower
N 55° 05.869 W 002° 58.187
30U E 501928 N 6105676
Gilnockie Tower is a restored pele tower now used as Clan Armstrong centre.
Waymark Code: WMQNGD
Location: Southern Scotland, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/08/2016
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Gilnockie Tower is a grade A listed building. The four storey home has a barrel vaulted cellar at ground level where the animals were put during attacks. Entrance to upper levels was by a ladder to the first floor, initially, which could be withdrawn when under attack. Making the tower very defensible. Attackers would set a fire in the cellar, to smoke the family out. Sometimes the family would escape and set a fire in the cellar themselves to render the tower uninhabitable.
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