What is recorded here

Knock Old Castle stands in North Ayrshire as a seventeenth-century ruin, its exact position known though its history has faded from memory. The stones may have sheltered a family, resisted a storm or simply watched the land change before they crumbled. Whatever life moved through those chambers, the castle still holds the shape of that lost time.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Knock Old Castle as Castle (17th Century). 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.

Knock Old Castle was built in the 17th century, though specific builders or holders are not recorded. It is remembered as a historic site reflecting the defensive and architectural traditions of early modern Scotland.

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