Kinsale Tower is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. Tower.
Kinsale Tower
- WRENN ID
- crooked-stronghold-violet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1972
- Type
- Tower
- OS grid reference
- NW 993 624
- Coordinates
- 54.91666, -5.13153
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kinsale Tower is a circular tower built in 1820. It is constructed from rubble and tapers up to a rubble string course. The tower features a crenellated parapet with coping between the merlons. On the west side, below the band course, there is a sandstone panel inscribed with "Built by John 26th Lord Kingsale August 1820".
Local climate
Kinsale Tower sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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