Thesaurus Term/Concept: TOWER HOUSE

Identifier 68914
Class MONUMENT TYPE
Status Preferred
Index? Yes
Scope Note A multi-storey, fortified hall house with one of the crosswings being raised in the form of a crenellated tower. Permanently occupied, they date from the mid 14th to the 17th century and are found mainly in the border counties of the North of England.

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Context Record
Monument Type MHG25218 Balnagown Castle (Monument)
Monument Type MHG2359 Bower Tower (Monument)
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Monument Type MHG5416 Caisteal Maol (Monument)
Monument Type MHG3157 Caisteal Uisdein (Monument)
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Monument Type MHG8196 Castle Craig (Monument)
Monument Type MHG45098 Castle Leod (Monument)
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Monument Type MHG10803 Clyne (Monument)
Monument Type MHG17632 Cromarty Castle (Monument)
Monument Type MHG7146 Dochmaluag House (Monument)
Monument Type MHG3754 Dunain House (Monument)
Monument Type MHG7784 Fairburn Tower (Monument)
Monument Type MHG11838 Former Bishop's Palace, Dornoch (Building)
Monument Type MHG9594 Golspie Tower (Monument)
Monument Type MHG14193 Inshes House, tower (Building)
Monument Type MHG9028 Kinkell Castle (Monument)
Monument Type MHG8623 Milntown Castle (Monument)
Monument Type MHG3415 Moniack Castle (Monument)
Monument Type MHG26706 Muir of Clunes (Monument)
Monument Type MHG2608 Old Castle of Kilwhinan, Fort Augustus (Monument)
Monument Type MHG9114 Redcastle (Monument)
Monument Type MHG8491 Rockfield Castle (Formerly Little Tarrel Castle) (Monument)
Monument Type MHG4187 Tor Castle (Monument)
Monument Type MHG1052 Tower House, Brims Castle (Building)
Monument Type MHG5 Tower House, Caisteal Dubh Nan Cliar (Monument)
Monument Type MHG262 Tower House, Caisteal nan Con (Monument)
Monument Type MHG2731 Tower House, Erchless Castle (Building)
Monument Type MHG316 Tower House, Glensanda Castle (Monument)
Monument Type MHG7937 Tower House, Isle Maree (Monument)
Monument Type MHG9441 Tower House? Aberscross (Monument)