What is recorded here

Kelburn Castle is the oldest continuously occupied castle in Scotland, holding the Boyle family from the twelfth century through a wooden tower, a stone keep, and two later wings. David Boyle, 1st Earl of Glasgow, doubled its size around 1722, while George Boyle, 6th Earl of Glasgow, added the north-east wing in 1880. The house still stands near Fairlie, marked by Category A protection and a landscape recorded for its gardens.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Kelburn Castle as Country House (18th Century), Tower House (medieval). 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.

Kelburn Castle, located in Ayrshire, Scotland, was originally a medieval tower house and was later expanded into an 18th-century country house by the Kennedy family, who held the estate for centuries. It is important as a historic seat of the Kennedy Earls of Cassillis and as an example of the evolution of Scottish aristocratic architecture.

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