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Kenmure Castle is a fortified hoose or castle in The Glenkens, wan mile (1.6 km) sooth o the toun o New Gallowa in Kirkcoubrieshire, Gallowa, sooth-west Scotland. The site wis occupied fae the middle ages, an the hoose incorporates pairt o a 17th-century castle.[1] This wis remodelled in the 19th century, bit the castle haes bin derelict syne the mid-20th century. It wis the seat o the Gordon faimily o Lochinvar, efter raised tae the peerage as Viscounts o Kenmure. The ruin is noo a scheduled monument.[2] The castle stauns oan a natural bourach, whilk haes bin modified fur defence in the middle ages. The Lords o Gallowa, rulers o a semi-independent kinrick in south-west Scotland til the 13th century hud a fortress here. Kenmure haes bin suggested as a birthplace in 1249 o John Balliol, later King o Scotland, wha's mither Dervorguilla wis dochter o' Alan, Lord of Gallowa. it efter belonged tae th' Douglas an Maxwell faimilies.
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Kenmure became a property o the Gordons fae 1297, whin they arrived fae Berwickshire. The castle wis badly damaged by opponents o Mary, Queen o Scots, wha pursued her thro Gallowa efter her defeat at the Battle o Langside in 1568.
Sir Robert Gordon o Lochinvar wis created a baronet in 1626, an in 1633 his son Sir John Gordon wis created Viscount o Kenmure bi Charles I.
The 6th Viscount teuk pairt in the Jacobite Rising o 1715 an wis beheaded at the Tower o Lunnon an his estates forfeit.
Some accounts state that his body wis returned tae his faimily at Kenmure fur burial.
The viscountcy wis restored tae Captain John Gordon in 1824 whae died in 1840, an haes bin dormant syne the death o his nephew, Adam the 8th/11th Viscount, in 1847.
The castle wis extensively remodelled an modernised inthe 19th century, whin the courtyaird dyke an the north-east tower wur lifted wi the uise o gunpooder. The sooth range wis rebuilt in aroond 1840 amongst the architects responsible fur thae changes wur William McCandlish, in the 1840s, an Hugh MaClure in the 1860s. In 1879 the Sheffield-based airchitect Matthew Ellison Hadfield wis employed tae remodel the wast range. Further extensions wur made in 1908 by the architect Christian Elliot. In 1923, the estate wis sold but the castle itself wis let tae an efter bought bi Brigadier-General Maurice Lilburn MacEwen CB ,late 16th the Queen's Lancers. He wis battalion commander o the Stewartry Hame Guard during WW II. He died in 1943 at Kenmure Castle an is buriet in Kells Churchyaird. Fae aboot the late 1940s tae 1957 it operated as an hotel run by Stanley Dobson, (brither o David Cowan Dobson), and his business pairtner Hugh Ormond Sparks. Aroond 1958 the biggins interior fixtures an fittins wur pult aff oot an the roof taen aff. The ruins wur bought in 1962 by Graeme Gordon. The castle wisnae as commonly thocht destroyed by fire.[3]
The castle is said tae be hauntit bi a heidless piper, "The Headless Piper of Kenmure".[3]
A sundial bearin the date 1623 fae Kenmure is noo in Dumfries Museum.
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