Cavens, an estate, with a mansion, in Kirkbean parish, SE Kirkcudbrightshire, 13 miles S of Dumfries, and 3 furlongs S of Kirkbean village. Its owner is R. A. Oswald, Esq. (b. 1841; suc. 1871) of Auchencruive. The Regent Morton had a castle here, which James VI. visited as a boy.

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