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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| CROSSRAGUEL ABBEY | [Crossraguel Abbey continued] | [continued from page 27] have extended from this nearly to the eastern part of the choir. A coat of arms is cut upon a stone on the extremity of this range representing a chevron with a cross on the nombril point; other two crosses on the right & left of the upper edge of the escutcheon. Some of these vaults are entire, others are a mass of ruins. Three walls of a square tower at the [ ] are still standing to the height of 45 feet. On the W. [West] end stands another tower of the same dimensions & supports a small projecting watch-tower. At the S.W. [South West] corner stands a small circular pigeon tower 20 feet high |
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[Page] 28Sheet 44.11 -- Parish of Kirkoswald.
[Crossraguel Abbey note continued from page 27]
"reference to water, a small pellucid stream
running along the east of the building. The Area of
the Abbey grounds measure about eight acres. These
were enclosed, except on the south - which was bounded with a
marsh - with a stone wall of considerable strength, having
two gates, one to the south, and another to the south-west. ***
The last Abbot was Quintin Kennedy, brother to the Earl of Cassillis
well known as the author of several works, and especially by his disputa-
-tion with John Knox at Maybole in 1562 ** The Abbey was after-
-wards rented from the Chapel Royal by Sir James Fergusson of
Kilkerran, Bart. [Baronet], and the lease still continues in that family".
Extract from Patterson's History of Ayrshire (published 1847)
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