What is recorded here

Cassillis House is a medieval tower house in South Ayrshire, Scotland, recorded in the national heritage register with a precise map point. It may have been a private stronghold, a family home or both, and that uncertainty leaves room for imagination about who lived inside, what they feared and how they used the land around it. The house still belongs to memory even if no longer to daily life.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Cassillis House as Tower House (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Cassillis House, a medieval tower house in Scotland, was built by the Kennedy family in the late 15th or early 16th century. It is historically significant as the ancestral seat of the Earls of Cassillis and as an example of Scottish Renaissance architecture.

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