L'architecture domestique et de l'Écosse, du xiie au xviiie siècle . ed un donjon carré (Fig. 1421), dont les deux côtés sont nowpartially visible ; un troisième est dissimulé sous le monticule, et de l'fourthonly les fondements restent probablement. Le rez-de-chaussée a été, voûté d'environ trois pieds au-dessus du mur restant encore thespringing. Au premier étage, le mur nord est un piercedby passage 3 pieds 3 pouces de largeur, encore partiellement sous toit, et à whichseems ont conduit à un escalier Avhere le mur extérieur a été thickenedat le nord-est un^^le. Deux fenêtres de l'al.

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The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century . ed a square keep (Fig. 1421), of which two sides are nowpartially visible; a third is concealed under the mound, and of the fourthonly the foundations probably remain. The ground floor has been vaulted, about three feet of wall above thespringing still remaining. On the first floor level the north wall is piercedby a passage 3 feet 3 inches in width, still partially roofed, and whichseems to have led to a stair Avhere the exterior wall has been thickenedat the north-east an^^le. Two windows of small dimensions li<2fht thispassage, one of them being only a circular bole 6 or 7 inches in diameter, cut out of a slab of ruddy silurian grit from the Stewartry. Another* We have to thank Mr. Galloway for the plan and description of this structure. KIRKCONNELL TOWER 309 FOURTH PERIOD opening of the same kind shows itself on the ground floor level imme-diately below. With the exception of these two specimens of freestone, the entire building, including the quoining, is of rubble. 1111 III i. Fig. 1421.—Kilhisser Castle. Plau. A few yards to the north runs a small stream called Killasser Burn, but outside the keep there are now no traces of outbuildings or defencesof any kind. KIRKCONNELL TOWER, * Kirkcudbrightshire. This small tower exists in a state of considerable completeness, butbeing still inhabited it has been entirely modernised in the interior. Itis a simple structure of the familiar L Plan (Fig. 1 422), and measures onthe outside 33 feet by 25 feet. The projecting staircase tower is about 14feet square. The height from the ground to the top of the battlements isfully 38 feet, and to the top of the cape-house roof is 48 feet. The walls of the ground floor are about 4 feet 6 inches thick, increasedto about 5 feet thick on the upper floors. The ground floor is barrel- * We are indebted to Mr. Robert Barbour, Dumfries, for the drawings of Kirk-connell Tower, as also

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