Castle Clanyard is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979.
Castle Clanyard
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-entrance-evening
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1979
- OS grid reference
- NX 108 374
- Coordinates
- 54.69631, -4.93664
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Castle Clanyard is a fragmentary ruin of a castle, constructed from rubble. The remains primarily consist of a section of the west wall, containing several openings. The date of its original construction is unknown, although it was described as "something ruinous" in 1684. Castle Clanyard served as the residence of a branch of the Gordons of Kenmure family. Historical sources detail the castle's existence in the 19th century, with accounts appearing in Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, Harper's Rambles in Galloway, and M'Kerlie’s History of the lands and their owners in Galloway. The New Statistical Account also references the site. The Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) Inventory of Wigtown provides further details.
Local climate
Castle Clanyard sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% 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 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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