List of castles in East Ayrshire
This is a list of castles in East Ayrshire.
List
Name | Type | Date | Condition | Ownership | Location | Notes | Picture |
Aiket Castle | Tower house | Late 15th century | Restored and used as a residence | Private | Near Dunlop | See Barony of Aiket | |
Auchencloigh Castle | Tower House | 15th century | Scant remains | Private | Near Sinclairston | ||
Barr Castle | Tower house | 15th century | In use as a Masonic Lodge with a museum | Masonic Lodge | Galston | Also known as Lockhart Tower | |
Borland Castle | Tower Castle | 15th Century | No remains | Private | Cumnock | ||
Busbie Castle | Tower house | 14th century | Scant remains | Garden of residence | Knockentiber | Demolished in the 1950s | |
Caprington Castle | Tower house | 15th century | Still in use as a residence | Private | Near Kilmarnock | Extended to form a baronial house in the 1830s | |
Carnell Castle | Tower house | 15th century | Still in use as a residence and hotel | Private | Extended to form a baronial house in 1843 | ||
Cessnock Castle | Tower house | 13th century | Restored as a residence | Private | Galston | ||
Corsehill Castle | Tower house | Ruined | Private | Stewarton | See Corsehill, Lainshaw, Robertland and Dunlop | ||
Craufurdland Castle | Tower house | 14th century | Still in use as a residence | Private | Near Kilmarnock | Extended to form a gothic house in the 19th century | |
Dallars Castle | Tower House | 15th century | Replaced by a mansion house | Private | Hurlford | Know for a time as Auchenskeith. Held by the Cuninghams for many years | |
Dean Castle | Courtyard Castle | 14th century | Restored as a museum | East Ayrshire Council | Kilmarnock | Restored 1935-6 | |
Dunlop Castle | Unknown | 14th century | No remains | Private | Near Dunlop | Dunlop House is built on the site | |
Haining Place | Tower House | 16/17th centuries | Vaulted basement survives | Private | Near Kilmarnock | Last used as farm workers accommodation | |
Kerse Castle | Before 1600 | No remains | Craufurd clan | Near Hollybush | |||
Kilmaurs Castle | c. 15th century | No remains | Private | Near Jocksthorn Farm, Kilmaurs | Replaced by later Kilmaurs Place | ||
Kingencleugh Castle | L-plan tower house | 17th Century | Ornamental ruins | Private | Near Mauchline | Part of the Kingencleugh House estate | |
Kyle Castle | Tower castle and barmkin | 15th Century | Sparse ruins | Private | Near Muirkirk | Marquis of Bute Estates | |
Lainshaw Castle | Lainshaw House incorporates part of the old castle | Private | Stewarton | See Corsehill, Lainshaw, Robertland and Dunlop | in 1779 | ||
Lefnoreis Castle | Tower Castle | 15th Century | Foundations only | Great Steward of Scotland Trust | Cumnock | Sometimes known as Lochnorris | |
Loch Doon Castle | Late 13th century | Ruined | Historic Scotland | ||||
Loudoun Castle | Courtyard Castle | by the 1820s | Substantial ruins | Private | Near Galston | Destroyed by fire in 1941, formerly known as Windsor of the North, incorporated into a theme park between 1995 and 2010 | |
Mauchline Castle | Tower | 15th century | Still standing | Private | Mauchline | Also known as Abbot Hunter's Tower | |
Martnaham Castle | Tower | 4th & 5th centuries | Ruins | Private | On the south-side of Martnaham Loch | http://www.futuremuseum.co.uk/collections/people/key-people/soldiers,-sailors,-rebels-outlaws/king-coil.aspx | |
Newmilns Tower | Keep | 1530s | Restored and used as a residence | Private | Newmilns | Restored in 1997 - locally referred to as The Keep | |
Polkelly Castle | Tower | 14th century | Removed | Private | Near Polkelly Hall | Ruins used to build a road in the 1850s | |
Ravenscraig Castle | Before 1604 | Ruined | See Corsehill, Lainshaw, Robertland and Dunlop | ||||
Riccarton Castle | Before 1297 | No remains | A commemorative plaque is at the fire station | ||||
Robertland Castle | Tower | 16th century | The motte and a few stones remain. Robertland House was built from its remains. | Private | Near Stewarton | ||
Rowallan Castle | 16th century | Intact | limited access Historic Scotland | Near Kilmarnock | In the grounds of a Golfing development. | ||
Sorn Castle | Tower house | 1409 | Expanded 1909, in use as a hotel | Private | |||
Templehouse Fortalice | No remains | Stewarton | See Corsehill, Lainshaw, Robertland and Dunlop | ||||
Terringzean Castle, East Ayrshire | c. 1696 | Substantial ruins | Private | Near Auchinleck | In the grounds of Dumfries House | ||
Trabboch Castle | L-plan Tower House | 14th century | Ruin | Private | Near Stair | Much of the stone used to build the nearby farm |