Kenmure Castle

About Kenmure Castle

Burns stayed with Gordon John, Seventh Viscount Kenmure and his wife, for three days at Kenumre Castle, from 27th July 1793, which the poet and his friend Syme were making a tour of Galloway. Syme related than when Mrs Gordon's lapdog 'Echo' died, she asked Burns for an epitaph. This Burns rather reluctantly gave her — 'In wood and wild, ye warbling throng', one of his feebler efforts. But Burns was clearly grateful for the hospitality referring to Gordon in his 2nd Heron Election Ballad as 'Kenmure sae gen'rous'.