Castles and forts in East Ayrshire
The Discover Alone map has 65 castles and forts in East Ayrshire, Scotland. Below are the 60 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Trabboch CastleTower House (medieval)Trabboch Castle is a ruined L-plan tower house in East Ayrshire, built in the 14th century and controlled by the Boyd…
Taringzean CastleTower House (medieval)Mnemo knows Taringzean Castle as a medieval tower house in East Ayrshire, Scotland. Its exact point is recorded to the…
Sorn CastleBarracks (17th Century), Castle (medieval), Country House (post Medieval)Sorn Castle stands on a cliff above the River Ayr, its medieval roots stretching back to the late 14th century when the…
Rowallan CastleCastle (medieval), Country House (period Unassigned), Bottle (post Medieval), Unidentified Pottery(s) (post Medieval)Rowallan Castle is a 16th-century stone stronghold on the banks of the Carmel Water in East Ayrshire, Scotland. Built…
Newmilns TowerCastleNewmilns Tower rose in East Ayrshire as a compact stone box for the Campbells of Loudon, its thick walls and vaulted…
New Cumnock, Cumnock CastleCastle (medieval), Moat (medieval)New Cumnock, Cumnock Castle is a medieval castle and moat in East Ayrshire, Scotland, where water once surrounded stone…
Nether WhitehaughBuilding(s) (medieval) - (post Medieval), Tower House (medieval)Nether Whitehaugh stands in East Ayrshire as a medieval tower house whose stones continued into post-medieval life. It…
Mauchline CastleCastleMauchline Castle is a fifteenth-century tower built for Melrose Abbey, not a royal fortress or private noble home.….jpg?width=1280)
Loudoun CastleCountry House (19th Century), Tower House (15th Century)(possible)Loudoun Castle rose near Galston as the Windsor of Scotland, containing over ninety apartments and a hundred-foot…
Loch DoonCastle (13th Century)Loch Doon Castle stands as an eleven-sided ashlar ruin near Craigmulloch Farm, having been dismantled and re-erected in…
Lainshaw HouseCountry House (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval)(possible)Lainshaw House stands above the Annick Water in East Ayrshire, a stone mansion built around 1779 that still contains…
Laight CastleEarthwork(s) (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval)Laight Castle stands in East Ayrshire as a medieval tower house reduced to earthworks, its stones gone but its shape…
Kyle CastleTower House (medieval)Kyle Castle is a ruined medieval tower house at Dalblair, East Ayrshire, built in the 15th century by Farquhar of…
Kingencleugh CastleCastle (medieval), Tower House (medieval)Kingencleugh Castle is a ruined L-shaped tower house built around 1620 by the Campbells of Cessnock, overlooking the…
Galston, Barr CastleTower House (medieval)Barr Castle rose as a medieval tower house above Galston in East Ayrshire, its stones built to watch the land rather….jpg?width=1280)
Dunlop HouseCastle (medieval)(possible), Country House (19th Century), Hospital (first World War), Psychiatric Hospital (20th Century)Gracey General Partnership now owns Dunlop House, where medieval castle shadows still haunt the 19th-century country…
Dunlop HillCastle (medieval)(possible), Ditch(s) (period Unassigned)Templehouse on Dunlop Hill belonged to the Knights Templar before the Gemmells occupied it for five centuries, leaving…
DaldillingCastle (medieval)(possible)Daldilling is a possible medieval castle hidden in East Ayrshire, Scotland. Its exact boundary remains unclear because…
Cessnock CastleCastle (medieval)Cessnock Castle is a medieval tower house just outside Galston, built by John Campbell of Loudoun in the late 13th…
Caprington CastleCastle (medieval), Tower House (medieval)Caprington Castle is a 15th century keep in East Ayrshire, Scotland, where the original dining-room walls still mark…
Barr CastleCastleBarr Castle stands as a plain stone rectangle on a low ridge near Lochwinnoch, built in the 15th or early 16th century…
Auchinleck CastleBridge (period Unassigned), Castle (medieval), House (period Unassigned)Auchinleck Castle was a medieval stronghold on a steep rocky outcrop above the Lugar Water, occupied by the Stewart…
Auchenharvie CastleTower House (medieval)Auchenharvie Castle was a modest rectangular tower built for the Cunninghames in the late 15th century, where Robert…
Auchencloigh CastleCastle (medieval)Auchencloigh Castle was a rectangular stone fortification built in the 15th century for the Craufurd clan, standing…
Aiket CastleLairds House (17th Century), Tower House (medieval)Aiket Castle rose from a 1479 charter granted to Alexander Cunninghame, marking the birth of a defensive tower house on…
Auchinleck, Old HouseTower House (medieval)Auchinleck, Old House stands as a medieval tower house in East Ayrshire, its exact position known to the nearest metre.…
Little Rigend, Waterhead CastleCastle (medieval), Date Stone (17th Century)Little Rigend, Waterhead Castle is a medieval castle and 17th Century date stone in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It stands…
Dalmellington, Dame Helen's CastleEarthwork(s) (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval)(possible)Dame Helen's Castle in Dalmellington may be a medieval tower house reduced to earthworks. The ground still holds the…- Terringzean CastleRuinsTerringzean Castle stands as a stone ruin above the River Lugar in East Ayrshire, where a steep bank and dry moat once…
- Skeldon CastleCottage (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval)Skeldon Castle stands in East Ayrshire as a medieval tower house, its ancient bones still visible beneath a later…
- Site of Ochiltree CastleArchaeological placeOchiltree Castle has vanished except for the memory of its shape, leaving behind a quiet archaeological scar in East…
- Ruins of Auchinleck CastleCastleAuchinleck Castle stands in ruin across East Ayrshire, its stones reduced to a broken outline rather than a roomy home.…
- Robertland CastleCastle (medieval)Robertland Castle is a medieval castle in East Ayrshire, Scotland. Its stones may still stand where they were set…
- Pokelly CastleCastle (medieval)Pokelly Castle is a medieval castle in East Ayrshire, Scotland, still standing as a ghost of its own history. Its walls…
- Old Loudoun Castle, MotteArchaeological placeOld Loudoun Castle, Motte is an archaeological place in East Ayrshire, Scotland, where a buried mound still marks the…
- Old Loudoun Castle, HindberrybankMotte and Bailey (medieval)Old Loudoun Castle, Hindberrybank is a medieval motte and bailey in East Ayrshire, Scotland. A tall mound of earth and…
- Ochiltree HouseCastle (medieval)(possible), Country House (period Unassigned)Ochiltree House stands in East Ayrshire as a possible medieval castle later becoming a country house, its exact…
- Ochiltree CastleCastle (medieval)Ochiltree Castle rose on a high rocky bank beside the Lugar Water, built by the de Colville family in the 12th century…
- Newmilns, Castle Street, Newmilns Tower, Ducat TowerBarracks (17th Century), Prison (17th Century), Tower House (medieval)Castle Street still drops past the ruined Newmilns Tower, a medieval tower house later forced into barracks and prison…
- Mauchline, 1, 3 Earl Grey StreetTower House (post Medieval)Mauchline, 1, 3 Earl Grey Street stands as a post Medieval tower house in East Ayrshire, Scotland. Its angular stone…
- Mauchline, Castle Street, Mauchline CastleCastle (medieval), Tower House (medieval)Mauchline Castle stands on Castle Street as a medieval tower house, its stones marking the town since the middle ages.…
- Loch Doon Castle (re-located)CastleLoch Doon Castle (re-located) stands in East Ayrshire, Scotland, wearing the bones of a building that refused to die in…
- Law Mount, High CastletonMotte and Bailey (medieval)(possible), Mound (period Unassigned)Law Mount, High Castleton is a possible medieval motte and bailey hidden among ordinary ground in East Ayrshire.…
- KnockshinnochTower House (medieval)Knockshinnoch Castle Colliery killed thirteen men when liquid peat broke through the coal seam on 7th September 1950…
- Kilmaurs TowerTower House (medieval)Kilmaurs Tower rose in the fourteenth century as a strong stone seat for Clan Cunningham before the ninth Earl of…
- Kilmaurs, TourTower House (medieval)Kilmaurs, Tour stands as a medieval tower house in East Ayrshire, Scotland. Its stones have watched the land for…
- Kilmarnock, YardsideTower House (medieval), Tree (period Unassigned)Kilmarnock, Yardside is a medieval tower house in East Ayrshire, Scotland, standing beside an unclassified tree. The…
- Kilmarnock, Dean Road, Dean Country Park, Dean CastleBarracks (17th Century) (1667), Castle (medieval), Prison (17th Century)Dean Castle stands in Kilmarnock as a medieval castle that became 17th-century barracks and prison, marking Dean Road…
- Keirs CastleTower House (medieval)Keirs Castle stands in East Ayrshire as a medieval tower house, its sharp lines still cutting through the local…
- Haining PlaceLairds House (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval)(possible)Haining Place is a ruined stone tower beside an old ford on the Cessnock Water in East Ayrshire, built or rebuilt in…
- Dumfries House, Ward of LochnorrisCastle (medieval)Dumfries House, Ward of Lochnorris, stands as a medieval castle in East Ayrshire, Scotland, marked on official maps…
- Drongan CastleTower House (medieval)Drongan Castle stands in East Ayrshire as a medieval tower house, its stones still touching the sky long after the…
- Corsehill CastleCastle (medieval)Corsehill Castle is a ruined stone tower near Stewarton where the Cunningham family held power from the sixteenth…
- ChapelhouseFarmstead (medieval) - (post Medieval), Tower House (medieval)Chapelhouse stands in East Ayrshire as a medieval tower house later worked into a farmstead, its stones carrying both…
- Castle Hill, MerklandMotte and Bailey (medieval)Merkland Castle Hill is a medieval motte and bailey in East Ayrshire, Scotland. The mound still stands where people…
- Busbie CastleCastle (medieval)Busbie Castle was a three-storey Mowat tower on the west bank of the Carmel Water, lost when safety fears caused its…
- Borland CastleCastle (medieval)(possible)Borland Castle may have been a medieval stronghold in East Ayrshire, though no surviving structure or clear historical…
- Barbieston CastleCastle (medieval)Barbieston Castle stands in East Ayrshire, Scotland, a medieval ruin where human life still lingers in the stones. The…
- Castle Hill, MotteArchaeological placeCastle Hill, Motte still stands as an archaeological mark in East Ayrshire, though no building or date is written…
- Auchinleck Castle (ruins)RuinsAuchinleck Castle stands in ruin across East Ayrshire, its broken walls still marking the place where people once…