Drumcoltran Tower
Drumcoltran Tower is a tower house in Dumfries and Galloway. Its location is 8.1 km northeast of Dalbeattie. On the official register, it is a scheduled monument.
Castle near Dalbeattie
Near Dalbeattie
Drumcoltran Tower is 8.1 km northeast of Dalbeattie. Towns near it ↓
Scheduled monument
On the official list of protected heritage; Dalbeattie has 16 listed buildings in all, on its History page. About ↓
Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NRS’s localities and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Weather, month by month
In Dalbeattie the warm season is June to August, with highs of 17–19°C.
Drumcoltran Tower
There are Wikipedia articles on it in 5 languages. Look also at Threave Castle, 14 km away, first of 13 more within 15 km.
- Type
- Castle
- Listed
- Scheduled monument
- Wikipedias
- Covered in 5 languages
- Town
- 8.1 km northeast of Dalbeattie
Where to find Drumcoltran Tower
The map centres on Drumcoltran Tower, in orange, with nearby places numbered.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · NRS locality 2022
The nearest towns
The 5 towns are led in size by Dumfries, with 33,694 people. The town it is in comes first, then the others whose pages list it, nearest first.
Dalbeattie
Castle Douglas
Dumfries
Locharbriggs
Compare the 5 towns
| Town | Where Drumcoltran Tower is | People | Places to visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dalbeattie | 8.1 km southwest of it | 4,134 | 1 |
| Castle Douglas | 12 km southwest of it | 4,061 | 5 |
| Dumfries | 13 km northeast of it | 33,694 | 8 |
| Locharbriggs | 17 km northeast of it | 5,488 | 6 |
| Annan | 33 km east of it | 8,697 | 3 |
Make a day of it near Drumcoltran Tower
Within 15 km are 13 places, among them 3 castles, 2 museums and an abbey or priory.
Castle · Historic Environment ScotlandThreave Castle14 km away2Abbey or prioryAbbey or priorySweetheart Abbey9.7 km away3
CastleBuittle Castle8.3 km away4CastleCastleOrchardton Tower14 km away5Art galleryArt galleryGlenkiln Sculpture Park9.9 km away6
Garden · National Trust for ScotlandThreave Garden (NTS)14 km away7
MuseumDumfries Museum12 km away8
MuseumGracefield Arts Centre13 km awayWithin 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.
Drumcoltran Tower, answered
Where is Drumcoltran Tower?
Drumcoltran Tower is 8.1 km northeast of Dalbeattie, Dumfries and Galloway.
What is Drumcoltran Tower?
Tower house in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK.
When is the best time to visit Drumcoltran Tower?
June to August are the warmest months in Dalbeattie, with afternoon highs of 17–19°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).
Is Drumcoltran Tower a listed building?
Yes: scheduled monument.
What else is there to see near Drumcoltran Tower?
Within 15 km: Threave Castle (14 km), Sweetheart Abbey (9.7 km), Buittle Castle (8.3 km) and Orchardton Tower (14 km).
Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the NRS 2022 locality (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (5)
- Threave Castle: LornaMCampbell, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Buittle Castle: Chris Newman, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Threave Garden (NTS): David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dumfries Museum: FutureMuseumSW, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gracefield Arts Centre: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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