Torhouse

The stone circle consists of nineteen granite boulders set on a slightly raised platform.[1] The stones have a height ranging from about 0.6 metres to 1.5 metres and are arranged in a circle with a diameter of about 22 metres.[1] The larger stones, over 1 metre high, are on the southeast side.[2]

Three upright boulders stand in a line near the centre of the circle.[3] The direction of the line of the three central stones is northeast to southwest.[1]

Two stones stand 40 metres to the south-southeast of the stone circle, one large and the other small, and there is a stone row of three stones 130 metres to the east.[2] There are also surviving remains of several burial cairns, and history records others long removed to build field dykes.[2]

The stone circle has not yet been archaeologically excavated. It probably dates to the Neolithic period or the Bronze Age.[1][2] The Torhouse Stones are in the care of Historic Environment Scotland as a scheduled monument.[2]

Local tradition maintains that the three large stones in the center of the circle contained the tomb of Galdus, a mythical Scottish king.[2][4] A similar story is told about one of the tombs at Cairnholy, also in Galloway.[5]

In the dyke on the south side of the road is a stone with a deep cavity which according to tradition, "the knowing never pass without depositing therein some pebble or gift to pass in peace".[6]

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  Central setting of three stones
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  Torhousekie Stone Row, 130 metres east of the stone circle

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