Covenanters’ Attack on Stranraer Castle

We recently did some open air outreach outside Stranraer Castle – also known as the Castle of St John. In the late 1600s, the Castle served as a prison for Covenanters as well as a base for Covenanting persecutor John Graham of Claverhouse – ‘Bloody Claverhouse’.

Around the summer of 1685, some Covenanters attacked the castle in order to rescue prisoners. Read more about this on the Stranraer RPCS website here.