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Moors Place Name & Heritage Walk
New Luce – Each of these 9 communities belong to a landscape area, which were carefully selected due to their distinctive and unique landscape character and the desire of local communities to engage more with their natural heritage.
Deserted Farmsteads of Galloway
The PLACE Project invites you to a FREE event that explores Galloway deserted farmsteads and the tales behind them.
Names & Heritage of Wigtownshire Moors
Join specialists Michael Ansell and Ted Cowan as they uncover the historical influences that gave us the Wigtownshire place names we know of today. Who or what inhabited the land before we made our mark and reminisce on some of the memorable Wigtownshire characters who made their mark on Scotland and abroad.
Archaeology & History Event
Join us as we travel through time with Dumfries & Galloway Archaeologist Andrew Nicholson. Andrew will explore the wider archaeology around Kirkcowan, historical events and industries; including the woolen mills.
Village Life
The heart of the old village, with its warmth, local interest, and friendliness, remains unaltered.
Smuggler’s Routes
In early times, because of their rock—bound shores and jagged aspect, Auchenmalg Bay and Portyerrock served as common landing places for Galloway smugglers bearing cargoes of spirits, tobacco, silk, wine, and candles from foreign lands to lucrative markets in Ayr, Paisley, and Edinburgh
I Hae Min o’ Kirkcowan
Once a year people emptied and burned the chaff in their mattresses. In Kirkcowan this was done at the New Mill Bridge.
Craichlaw
Craichlaw was, in its medieval form, a keep, or stone tower. Its earliest known proprietors were the Hamiltons, a family supposedly descended from the Earls of Leicester and related by marriage to the Earls of Moray.
Other Houses of Interest in Kirkcowan
Originally a timber house built in Norway, this building was carefully dismantled there, shipped to Scotland, and reconstructed at the site near Craichlaw by the laird.