What is recorded here

Easter Greenock Castle anchored the Crawford estates near Greenock from the mid-sixteenth century until railway works erased its stones by 1865. John Crawford built a dyke there that likely gave Cartsdyke its name, while Margaret Crawford later sold the lands to unite Easter and Wester Greenock. Castle Road remains the only visible marker, preserving a place where human ambition, legal ownership and industrial expansion collided across three centuries.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Easter Greenock Castle as Castle (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.

Easter Greenock Castle was a medieval stronghold, likely built in the late 13th or early 14th century by a local noble family in the Greenock area. It is remembered as part of the defensive and territorial landscape of the Clyde estuary during the Scottish Wars of Independence.

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