What is recorded here
Kilmaurs, Tour stands as a medieval tower house in East Ayrshire, Scotland. Its stones have watched the land for centuries, holding quiet secrets of the people who built and lived there. The structure remains a silent witness to local history, its exact purpose and daily life lost to time but its presence still firm against the sky.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Kilmaurs, Tour as Tower House (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Kilmaurs Tower was built by the Cunningham family in the late 15th or early 16th century. It is important as a well-preserved example of a medieval tower house and as the ancestral seat of the Cunningham earls of Glencairn.
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Places near here
Kilmaurs, Kirkton Road, CemeteryCemetery (mid 20th Century) · 75 yd
KirklandFarmhouse (period Unassigned), Farmstead (period Unassigned) · 323 yd
Kilmaurs, Crosshouse RoadDrain(s) (period Unassigned), Pit (period Unassigned), Structure(s) (period Unassigned) · 558 yd
Kilmaurs, Fenwick RoadNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 608 yd
Mercat CrossMonument · 702 yd
KilmaursBurgh (medieval), Town (period Unassigned) · 717 yd
Jubilee WoodForest · 729 yd
Kilmaurs, Crofthead RoadNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 882 yd
Rowallan CastleCastle (medieval), Country House (period Unassigned), Bottle (post Medieval), Unidentified Pottery(s) (post Medieval) · 1.7 mi
Crosshouse War MemorialMemorial · 1.9 mi
Moss WoodWood · 2.2 mi
Caprington CastleCastle (medieval), Tower House (medieval) · 2.8 mi