Fortified place · Medieval
Brodick Castle
North Ayrshire
Brodick Castle traces an unusually complete arc from a Bruce-era fortress through Hamilton tower house and Cromwellian garrison to a Victorian duca…
Scotland · Region
Ancient places in North Ayrshire
12 places in North Ayrshire, from the deepest prehistory to the medieval world.
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Kilwinning Abbey
North Ayrshire
One of Scotland's early Tironensian monasteries, its ruined medieval church and later clock tower anchor the North Ayrshire town that took the abbe…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Lochranza Castle
North Ayrshire
A modest fortified tower house that carries four centuries of Scottish royal and noble history on the Isle of Arran, from the medieval Stewarts thr…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Seagate Castle
North Ayrshire
It is a rare surviving sixteenth-century urban town house of a leading Ayrshire noble family, linked by tradition to a visit from Mary, Queen of Sc…
More places in North Ayrshire
Briefer entries — recorded and worth knowing, with fuller pages to come.
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