What is recorded here

Knockshinnoch Castle Colliery killed thirteen men when liquid peat broke through the coal seam on 7th September 1950, yet rescuers still dragged one hundred and sixteen others back into the light. The mine sat above the ruined tower of the Dunbars, whose Gaelic name means hill of the fox, tying modern industry to medieval stone. That collision of ancient land and hungry coal still shadows the parish, turning a ordinary upland hill into a place where joy and grief share the same breath.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Knockshinnoch 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.

Knockshinnoch Tower is a medieval tower house located in Ayrshire, Scotland, and was likely built in the 15th or 16th century by a local landholding family. It is remembered as an example of the defensive and residential architecture of Scotland's Lowlands during the late medieval period.

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