What is recorded here

Craigneil Castle stands in South Ayrshire as a fourteenth or fifteenth century tower house, its stones still holding the shape of hands that built it. Whether it watched a road, a border or a family's pride, the castle did not hide. It pointed upward, waited for weather and kept its distance from every cart and child that passed below.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Craigneil Castle as Tower House (14th Century) - (15th 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.

Craigneil Castle was built as a tower house in the 14th to 15th century, likely by a local Scottish noble family, and is remembered as an example of medieval defensive architecture in rural Scotland.

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