Fairgirth House
Gallovidia, vernacule Galloway
Joan Blaeu, Amsterdam, 1654map image courtesy of NLS
Joan Blaeu, Amsterdam, 1654map image courtesy of NLS
Fairgirth House is a low two storey farmhouse which incorporates the remains of a 16th century tower.
The lands of Fairgirth belonged to the Lindsay family certainly as early as the mid-15th century and were owned by James Lindsay, Chamberlain of Galloway, by 1460.
The west end of the current building incorporates a three storey building with walls around 0.8m thick and a turret stair in the north-east corner. Tacked onto the north side of this is a curved porch which looks like it may be a truncated external stair tower. The original tower was added to in the 17th and late 18th or early 19th centuries, extending it to the east.
The Steuartrie of Kircubright, the most easterlie part of Galloway
Joan Blaeu, Amsterdam, 1654map image courtesy of NLS
Joan Blaeu, Amsterdam, 1654map image courtesy of NLS
