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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| BRODICK CASTLE | Brodick Castle Brodick Castle Brodick Castle Brodick Castle Brodick Castle Brodick Castle Brodick Castle Brodick Castle Brodic Castle Brodick Castle Brodick Castle |
Antiquities of Arran New Stat [Statistical] Account Origines Parochiales Estate Plan McCulloch's Western Isles Mr Paterson Factor Anderson's Guide to the Highlands James Davidson Glenshurig Pennant's Tour of 1772 County Directory of Scotland Fullarton's Gazetteer |
244.12 | A seat of the Duke of Hamilton, situated on the North side of Brodick Bay. The greater part of the building is of modern erection, but a portion of the old building (shewn distinctively on trace) still remains at the Eastern end; a part of the old building is unroofed, but the ground floor still remains, and the walls rise a considerable height above it. The embrasures being still entire. The South West division of the old castle is a tower of considerable height having very thick walls. Steep slopes fall from the South and West, which formerly formed the North and east embankments of the moat, but so many modern alterations having been made no portion of the moat itself is now traceable. Brodick Castle retains much of its ancient feudal appearance, the high and thick wall enclosing the court behind still remains, and the broad and deep moat, which at one time protected it on South & West sides can easily be traced along the whole line of its compass" New Statistical Account Written 1807 Revised 1840. " The rude massive bastion, with its parapet and embrasures built by Cromwell on the North east [continued on next page] |
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[Page] 9Island of Arran -- Ph [Parish] of Kilbride
"It is a place of much antiquity, & seems to
have been the fort held by the English under
Sir John Hastings in 1306, when it was surprised by the
partisans of Robert Bruce & the garrison put to the Sword.
It was demolished in 1456 by the Earl of Ross in
the reign of James II, is said to have been Rebuilt
by James V & to have been garrisoned in the time
of Cromwell's usurpation". Pennant's Tour of 1772
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