Scotland
South West
Dumfries & Galloway

Rusco Tower

Rusco Tower, sometimes called Rusco Castle, is a tower house near in , Scotland. Built around 1500 for Mariota Carson and her husband Robert Gordon, on lands given to them by her father, it was used to incarcerate a number of the Gordons' rivals in the 16th century.
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Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Building
  • Description: castle in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Rusco Castle” and “Rusko Castle”

Rusco Tower

Latitude
54.91834° or 54° 55′ 6″ north
Longitude
-4.21044° or 4° 12′ 38″ west
Open location code
9C6QWQ9Q+8R
Open­Street­Map ID
way 591911296
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q17570469
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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 “Rusco Tower”. Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.