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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Site of DRUMMELLAN CASTLE Site of Drummellan Castle
Drummellan Castle
Drummellan
Drummellan
James Hope Esq
Peter Richardson F.C. Minr [Free Church Minister]
Thomas Scott
Ivie Willet
050 No vestige of this ancient tower now remains to mark the spot whereon it once Stood; more than 30 years have elapsed since it was [entirely] levelled with the ground, for the [purpose] of employing the stones in the constru[ction] of Kilkerran old Kennells, East of which [it] stood at the distance of 176 yards. Its [place] is still pointed out by the oldest inhabitant of the district. (It is uncertain at [what] time the Kennedies of Drummellan became a [separate] [family] Two Sons of the old Coiff or Cove (Culzean) branch of the Kennedies settled it is believed, during the reign of David [II] on the girvan water, & built for themselves strong houses or towers, the one at Barclomadean & the other at Drummellan both on the south side of the Girvan. The tower of Barclanachan [stood] on the ground now occupied by the house of Kilkerran. Drummellane tower [stood] by the river opposite to the house of Drumbaile which was at a recent period [owned] by one of the family.) Extracted from Paterson's History of Ayrshire (1847)

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