Smugglers at times avoided the excise man by making use of drains, sewers or water supply conduits, although in a few cases they seem to have constructed tunnels for the purpose of smuggling.īruce Walker, an expert on Scottish vernacular architecture, has suggested that the relatively numerous and usually long-ruined ice houses on country estates may have led to Scotland's many tunnel legends. Another tunnel allowed for the supposed free and secret movement of monks, abbots and other ecclesiastics who may have had cause to keep a low profile for fear of attack or abusive treatment during periods of unrest or persecution. Other tunnels are products of an excessive desire for personal privacy, such as at Welbeck Abbey and Brownlow Castle. The ice house entrance, Eglinton Country Park It is unlikely that many of the recorded tunnels exist physically, for this is a characteristic of their very nature their significance lies in the number of similar legends of tunnels that have arisen and in connection with the more esoteric notions of channels or paths of earth energy, and such. Religious buildings, monks and the landed gentry are particularly common elements in many tunnel stories. Legends about the existence of secret tunnels usually involve improbably long subterranean passages, sometimes running under major obstacles such as rivers and lakes to reach their destinations. Such tunnels are said to physically link prominent places such as country houses, castles, churches, ancient monuments and other, often medieval, buildings. Mysterious tunnels or " secret passages" are a common element of the local folklore tradition in Europe.
A "vowt", passing under two rivers, is said to link the castle with Kilwinning Abbey. The Lugton Water and Eglinton Castle in Scotland.
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