Lochnaw Castle
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Richard Paxman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Leswalt, Old Parish Church and Old Leswalt Church Graveyard.
Leswalt, Old Parish Church
Church
Photo: Rose and Trev Clough, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Leswalt, Old Parish Church is situated 1½ miles northeast of Lochnaw Castle.
Old Leswalt Church Graveyard
Cemetery
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Old Leswalt Church Graveyard is a cemetery, which is situated 1½ miles northeast of Lochnaw Castle.
Leswalt, Cemetery, Parish War Memorial
Memorial
Photo: Billy McCrorie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Leswalt, Cemetery, Parish War Memorial is situated 1½ miles northeast of Lochnaw Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Leswalt and Kirkcolm.
Leswalt
Village
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Leswalt is a village and civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland. It lies between Portpatrick and Stranraer in the Rhins of Galloway, part of the traditional county of Wigtownshire. The parish covers around 8 square miles. Leswalt is situated 2 miles northeast of Lochnaw Castle.
Kirkcolm
Village
Photo: Ann Cook, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kirkcolm is a village and civil parish on the northern tip of the Rhinns of Galloway peninsula, south-west Scotland. It is in Dumfries and Galloway, and is part of the former county of Wigtownshire. Kirkcolm is situated 4½ miles northeast of Lochnaw Castle.
Stranraer
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Stranraer is a town in Dumfries and Galloway near the tip of southwest Scotland. It's a ferry port, connecting Scotland with Northern Ireland, though nowadays all ferries run from Cairnryan a few miles north.
Lochnaw Castle
- Type: Castle
- Description: castle in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
- Categories: tower house, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Dumfries and Galloway, South West, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.91963° or 54° 55′ 11″ northLongitude
-5.13571° or 5° 8′ 9″ westElevation
436 feet (133 metres)Open location code
9C6PWV97+VPOpenStreetMap ID
way 1065572700OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleGeoNames ID
2643808Wikidata ID
Q17571022
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In Other Languages
From German to Scots—“Lochnaw Castle” goes by many names.
- German: “Lochnaw Castle”
- Italian: “castello di Lochnaw”
- Italian: “Castello di Lochnaw”
- Japanese: “ロクノー城”
- Portuguese: “Castelo de Lochnaw”
- Scots: “Lochnaw Castle”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lochnaw Castle”. Photo: Richard Paxman, CC BY-SA 2.0.