Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Blacket-House

Blacket-House, a ruined tower in Middlebie parish, Dumfriesshire, with the date 1404 and the initials W[illiam] B[ell] above its outer doorway. A Bell of Blacket-House was the rejected suitor and the murderer of 'Fair Helen of Kirkconnel Lee.'


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a ruined tower"   (ADL Feature Type: "historical sites")
Administrative units: Middlebie Parish       Dumfries Shire County

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