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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Site of AUCHENDRANE CASTLE | Old Auchendrane Old Auchendrane Old Auchendrane Old Auchendrane Old Auchendrane Castle of Auchendrane Auchindrane |
Elias Cathcart Esq Rev. [Reverend] Robert Wallace J. McLannahan Mr. D. Baillie Johnston's County Map Statistical Account Patterson's Hist. [History] of Ayrshire |
039 | The Site of an ancient Castle not a vestige of which remains at present. It was the residence of John Muir mentioned in Sir Walter Scott's Tragedy of Auchendrane. Patterson in his History of Ayrshire says "not a vestige of the building now remains. The only memorial left of it is a yew tree, the age of which it is impossible to guess at. The Dule tree, respecting which Sir Walter Scott tells a characteristic anecdote of the last Laird of Auchendrane, was Cut down and Sold to a Cabinet-maker". Adjacent are the roofless walls of what was intended for a Cothouse but never finished. |
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Sheet 39.6 -- Parish of Maybole -- [Page] 89"The ruins of the Castle of Auchendrane are still
" to be traced on the banks of the Doon, near to Monkwood
" Bridge, on the low road from Ayr to Maybole."
Statistical Account (1842)
"Auchendrane, celebrated by the pen of Sir Walter
"Scott, in his 'Auchendrane Tragedy', occupied a well-
" - sheltered situation not far from the banks of the Doon,
" east a considerable distance of Brown Carrick Hill**
" **The place was environed with wood. Not a vestige of
"the building now remains. The only memorial left of it
" is a yew tree, the age of which it is impossible to guess.
" The Dule-tree, respecting which Sir Walter Scott tells a
"characteristic anecdote of the last Laird of Auchindrane,
"was cut down and sold***
Patterson's History of Ayrshire (1847)
"Hugh Mure of Auchindraine disponed the property, with the
" 'tower, fortalice, and manor-place', to James Ferguson of Kilkerran,
" Bart. [Baronet] in 1741." Patterson's History
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