Clan Adair Castle Dumfries and Galloway Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of Dunskey Castle, a ruined, early 16th century Scottish tower house, located just south of the village on ancestry visit to Portpatrick, Dumfries and Galloway, on the south west coast of Scotland. It was probably built by the Adair family, who also built St John's Castle in Stranraer. The current castle was built after the medieval fortified house on the site burned down in the early 16th century following a local battle. The surname Adair was first found in Galloway, Gaelic: Gall-ghaidhealaibh, an area of southwestern Scotland, now part of the Council Area of Dumfries and Galloway, that formerly consisted of the counties of Wigtown, West Galloway, and Kirkcudbright, East Galloway. Tradition has it that the foundation of the family of Adair of Dunskey and Kinhilt originated from a fugitive son of Fitzgerald, Earl Desmond of Adair in Ireland. Desmond was descended from Otto Geraldino, a Norman noble who accompanied William, Duke of Normandy into England in 1066. He also accompanied Strongbow into Ireland in 1172, and became Earl of Desmond. He settled in Kirkcudbright and Wigtown.

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