The end result was passionate, irregular, and rather heroic. He collected the stones from the beach below his house. Robinson decided to be the apprentice to the contractor of the house so that he could build the tower by himself. He chose the rugged, wind-battered but beautiful coastal land to settle with his wife Una and their two sons. This house and tower were built by a poet named Robinson Jeffers in the 1920’s. 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'.Nestled between the golf courses and swanky homes of Carmel, California, is a home that is both striking and strikingly out of place: a stone house reminiscent of an English Tudor cottage, with a two-story stone tower, almost cartoon-like because of the giant stones, standing alone in the center of the garden. A similar story is told about one of the tombs at Cairnholy, also in Galloway. Local tradition maintains that the three large stones in the center of the circle contained the tomb of Galdus, a mythical Scottish king. The Torhouse Stones are in the care of Historic Environment Scotland as a scheduled monument.

It probably dates to the Neolithic period or the Bronze Age. The stone circle has not yet been archaeologically excavated. There are also surviving remains of several burial cairns, and history records others long removed to build field dykes. 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. The direction of the line of the three central stones is northeast to southwest. Three upright boulders stand in a line near the centre of the circle. The larger stones, over 1 metre high, are on the southeast side. 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. The stone circle consists of nineteen granite boulders set on a slightly raised platform.

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