Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Elshieshields Tower

Elshieshields Tower, a mansion in Lochmaben parish, Dumfriesshire, on the right bank of the Water of Ae, 2 miles NNW of Lochmaben. Partly a modern edifice, partly a massive old tower, it is the seat of Theodore Edgar Dickson Byrne, Esq. (b. 1833; suc. 1876), who owns 823 acres in the shire, valued at £963 per annum.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a mansion"   (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites")
Administrative units: Lochmaben ScoP       Dumfries Shire ScoCnty

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