title: Kirkconnel Tower
text: # Kirkconnel Tower
  
  Kirkconnel Tower was a 16th-century tower house, about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) east of Ecclefechan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, south of Kirtle Water, south of Kirkconnel Church.
  
  It is different from Kirkconnel House, south of Dumfries.
  
  ## History
  
  This is thought to have been the home of Helen of Kirconnel, the subject of the ballad published by Walter Scott, in Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. It may have been a mansion of the Irving family.
  
  ## Structure
  
  There is no trace of the castle nor evidence of its structure.
  
  