What is recorded here

Wee Cumbrae Castle still stands as a castle on the public map of North Ayrshire, though little else is known about its rooms or rulers. The name suggests a small island or peninsula, perhaps a place where seawater closed around people during storms and opened again for trade at low tide. Its mapped point marks the centre of that shape rather than a gate or hall, leaving the building itself to imagine.

Wee Cumbrae Castle is shown as a castle on the public map of North Ayrshire. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.

Wee Cumbrae Castle was likely built by the Maxwell family in the 16th century as a defensive structure on the Cumbrae islands. It is remembered for its strategic location and as an example of early modern island fortifications in the Firth of Clyde.

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