Sacred place · Medieval
Crossraguel Abbey
South Ayrshire
A ruined Cluniac monastery near Maybole that still keeps its church, covered walkways and dovecote.
Scotland · Region
Ancient places in South Ayrshire
8 places in South Ayrshire, from the deepest prehistory to the medieval world.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Culzean Castle
South Ayrshire
Eisenhower was given an apartment at the top of this castle in 1945, as a condition of the family handing it to the nation.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dundonald Castle
South Ayrshire
A fourteenth-century royal residence on a hill between Kilmarnock and Troon.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunure Castle
South Ayrshire
A ruin on a rocky headland of the Carrick coast, five miles south of Ayr, on a site of the late thirteenth century.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Greenan Castle
South Ayrshire
A sixteenth-century tower on a headland fortified since before the Romans, and the place a Kennedy set out from on the morning he was murdered.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Turnberry Castle
South Ayrshire
Robert the Bruce grew up here and ordered it destroyed in 1310, so the English could not have it. Nobody rebuilt it.
More places in South Ayrshire
Briefer entries: recorded and worth knowing, with fuller pages to come.
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, Prestwick
South Ayrshire
The cross carries its own admission that it is not original: the inscription reads 'Rebuilt 1777'.
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- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Brig o' Doon
South Ayrshire
Sold as a quarry to the builders of its replacement, then bought back before they could take it apart.
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