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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
BARR CASTLE Barr Castle
Barr Castle
Barr Castle
Mr William Gibb Galston
Alexander Campbell Galston
Robert Hutchison Galston
023 This is a Square building Situated at the north end of Barr Street, the date of its [erection] is unknown but it is believed to be very old. It is three Stories in Height and the walls between Six and Seven feet thick and has little decayed by time. it is roofed and two of the Stories are Arched. The under Story is at present used by the Small farmers about Galston now the Duke of Portlands Property for [thrashing] the middle Story as a Store room for [the] meal and the upper Story is used as a Carpenters Lumber Room.
There is a tradition in the neighbourhood that Knox the Reformer Preached within its walls.
Wright a native of Galston in one of his Poems entitled the "Retrospect" called it Lockharts Tower or Barr Castle and in another of his poems addresses it thus.
" Barr Castle tenantless and wild
Dome of Delight! dear haunt of mine!
the Shock of ages thou hast foiled
since fell the Last of Lockharts Line"
It is now called Barr Castle an is the property of the Duke of Portland.

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County of Ayr -- Parish of Galston

"The most ancient buildings extant in
"the Parish are those of Bar castle, and
"Cessnock House, the former possessed in
" Ancient times by the Lockharts of Bar,
" And the latter by the Campbells of Cessnock. "- Patersons History -

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