Fortified place · Medieval
Brodick Castle
North Ayrshire
A Norse-named stronghold on the Clyde approaches, seized and re-seized by Norwegian kings, Bruce's lieutenants, Campbell raiders and Cromwell's gun…
Scotland · Region
Ancient places in North Ayrshire
12 places in North Ayrshire, from the deepest prehistory to the medieval world.
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Sacred place · Medieval
Kilwinning Abbey
North Ayrshire
Kilwinning’s ruined monastery once held revenues from fourteen parishes, granges and baronial jurisdiction, leaving an unusually wide medieval impr…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Lochranza Castle
North Ayrshire
Lochranza’s waterside tower links thirteenth-century lordship with Robert the Bruce’s reported 1306 landing, James IV’s island campaign and later a…
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Machrie Moor Stone Circles
North Ayrshire
Machrie Moor gathers stone circles, burials and earlier timber settings into an exceptional prehistoric (before any written account of Britain exis…
- Near Machrie
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Seagate Castle
North Ayrshire
Seagate’s scheduled ruin preserves Irvine’s former harbour route and the sixteenth-century Montgomerie town house, where defence, aristocratic disp…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Torr a'Chaisteal
North Ayrshire
Torr a’Chaisteal preserves the low, turf-covered defences of an Iron Age (from about 800 BC until the Romans came) dun and its link to Arran’s wide…
- Near Blackwaterfoot
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Torrylin Cairn
North Ayrshire
Torrylin Cairn preserves a Neolithic (the late Stone Age, about 4000–2500 BC in Britain) Clyde cairn whose chamber, burials and later damage reveal…
- Some walking
More places in North Ayrshire
Briefer entries: recorded and worth knowing, with fuller pages to come.
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Auchagallon Stone Circle
North Ayrshire
Auchagallon is a fifteen-stone Arran monument whose circle and central cairn, a mound of piled stones covering a burial, preserve evidence of Stone…
- Near Machrie
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Carn Ban, Arran
North Ayrshire
Carn Ban is one of south-west Scotland’s best-known Neolithic (the first farming period in Britain, roughly 4000–2500 BC) Clyde cairns, preserving…
- Near Kilmory
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Grannie stone
North Ayrshire
The Grannie Stone is an enduring Irvine river landmark whose uncertain origin: glacial erratic or last stone-circle survivor: reveals how folklore,…
- Near Irvine
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Kilpatrick Dun
North Ayrshire
Kilpatrick Dun is a substantial later Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC) fortified residence on Arran, with an eight-m…
- Near Blackwaterfoot
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Moss Farm Road Stone Circle
North Ayrshire
Moss Farm Road preserves a damaged Bronze Age: the period from about 2500 to 800 BC: stone-mound-and-circle monument within Arran’s wider Machrie M…
- Near Machrie
- Some walking
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