Glenluce Abbey

The A75 from Newton Stewart to Stranraer runs close to Glenluce and the picturesque ruins of Roland of Galloway's monastery (1192) It was the sixth Cistercian abbey on Scottish soil and was later taken over by the monks of Dundrennan Abbey. In the 13th century the wizard Michael Scott is said to have attempted to rid the abbey of the plague by imprisoning it in a dungeon and leaving it to starve to death. Part of the southern transept of the abbey remains, as does the ribbed vaulting in the chapterhouse (1470). Entry to the chapterhouse is via a decorative round arch, which was probably renovated during the early 16th century.