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Elphinstone Tower
Elphinstone Tower (also called Dunmore or Airth Tower) is a 16th‑century Scottish tower house ruin on the Dunmore Estate near Airth in Falkirk council area. Built by Sir John Elphinstone and later enlarged with a gallery and hall in the early 17th century, the tower was partly remodelled as a family burial vault and has decayed since the Murray family left the estate in 1911.
Its prime
1638
Today
Ruin
As it stood in 1638
The shape it held in its prime.
A tall, rectangular stone tower house of roughly 9 by 7.4 metres footprint, rising to a crenellated parapet about 17 metres above ground. Built of pale grey-brown rubble masonry with small vertical windows and narrow slit openings, the tower presents a plain, blocky silhouette punctuated by a corbelled parapet and projecting angle. In its prime it stood detached amid parkland and scattered trees on the Dunmore estate, its stone surfaces clean and the roofline intact.
Its story
The story of Elphinstone Tower.
Elphinstone Tower — also known as Dunmore or Airth Tower — was built in the early 16th century by Sir John Elphinstone as the seat of the barony of Elphinstone, north-west of Airth in the Falkirk council area. Alexander Elphinstone, 4th Lord Elphinstone, added a gallery and a new hall before his death in 1638.
In 1754 the estate was purchased for £16,000 by John Murray, son of the 3rd Earl of Dunmore, who built the famous Dunmore Pineapple elsewhere on the estate in 1761. After the 5th Earl commissioned Dunmore Park as the principal residence in the 1820s, the old tower was restored and its ground floor remodelled as a family burial vault. The Murray family left Dunmore in 1911, and the tower — a category C(S) listed ruin — has decayed since.
Step inside
6 places to explore in 1638.
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Clans who held Elphinstone Tower.
The families that held Elphinstone Tower for a decade or more across its history — follow a name to its clan.
Elphinstone
Seat of the barony of Elphinstone from the early 16th century, when Sir John Elphinstone built the tower, until the estate was sold in 1754.
Bought for £16,000 in 1754 by John Murray, son of the 3rd Earl of Dunmore; the Murrays held the Dunmore Estate until 1911.
