Tinnis Castle (Yarrow)

Tynnis in Yarrow was part of the dower lands of Ettrick Forest given to Scottish queens.

[1] It was used as the house of the royal forest official, the Ranger or Master Currour of Yarrow in the 15th century.

In December 1520, Margaret Tudor, the widow of James IV of Scotland who had married the Earl of Angus, granted the forest stead lands of Tynnis and the tower and place of Tynnis, with the adjacent forest stead of Deuchar to Lady Agnes Stewart, Countess of Bothwell, for nine years.

[3] The lands of Tinnis in Ettrick continued to provide an income for Mary, Queen of Scots.

[6] The former site of "Tynneis", as marked on early maps, was between the Yarrow Water and the Lewenshope Burn.