Abbot's Tower

Abbot's Tower 2008

Abbot's Tower is a residential tower near New Abbey in the Scottish administrative division Dumfries and Galloway . Peter Kormylo had the tower from the 1580s, which was originally used until around 1627, restored in the early 1990s; today it serves as a private house.

This residential tower should not be confused with Abbot's Tower on Alnwick Castle in England .

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• Martin Coventry: The Castles of Scotland . 3. Edition. 2001. Chapter: Scotland: Goblinshead . ISBN 1-899874-26-7 .
• AMT Maxwell-Irving: The Border Towers of Scotland . Creedon Publications, 2000. ISBN 1-899316-31-0 .

Web links

• Abbot's Tower, New Abbey . CastleUK.net.
• Photo of Abbot's Tower prior to restoration. Scran.Ac.uk.

Coordinates: 54 ° 59 ′ 1.5 ″  N , 3 ° 36 ′ 21 ″  W.