Markle Castle

[1][2] Óengus II is reputed to have rested his army in this area before the battle in 832 at which the Cross of St Andrew was said to have appeared.

The second attack was during the Rough Wooing, when the English were led by Lord Hertford.

Markle was burnt on the morning of 17 May 1544 by the English army, after they had set fires in Leith and Edinburgh.

[2] Markle was in the possession of the rebel earl Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell, and in September 1594 James VI gave Hailes Castle, Morham, Traprain, and Markle to Walter Scott of Buccleuch.

[5] In November 1600, Robert Hepburn was resident at the "Place of Markle" when his kinsmen abducted Margaret Carkettle from Monkrigg (near Lennoxlove) and brought her to Markle, treating her in "abominable and destable form".