What is recorded here

Hill of Beith is a ruined castle and farmstead in North Ayrshire where Cuninghame and Kilwinning Abbey interests crossed from the 14th to the 17th century. The stone tower rose beside monkish cheese farms, later becoming a laird's seat on a ridge that still drops toward old Loch Brand. John Cuninghame defended that house, argued over a minister's pay and fled a heavy fine after supporting Covenanter officers.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Hill of Beith as Farmstead (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval)(possible). 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.

Hill of Beith is a medieval tower house in Scotland, possibly built by a local landholding family during the late 15th or early 16th century. It is remembered as an example of the defensive and domestic architecture of the Scottish Lowlands during the medieval period.

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