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Kilmaurs Place
Kilmaurs, North Ayrshire, Scotland
UK grid reference NS64741920
Kilmaurs Place is located in Scotland
Kilmaurs Place
Kilmaurs Place
Coordinates55°38′16″N 4°31′25″W / 55.637694°N 4.523611°W / 55.637694; -4.523611
TypeA castle with a later laird's house
Site information
OwnerPrivate
Controlled byEarls of Glencairn
Open to
the public
No
ConditionPartly ruined and robbed
Site history
Built14th century
Built byClan Cunningham
In use14th to present
MaterialsStone

Kilmaurs Place, The Place or Kilmaurs House, is an old mansion house and the ruins of Kilmaurs Tower grid reference NS41234112 are partly incorporated, Kilmaurs, East Ayrshire, Scotland. The house stands on a prominence above the Carmel Water and has a commanding view of the surrounding area. Once the seat of the Cunningham Earls of Glencairn it ceased to be the main residence after 1484 when Finlaystone became the family seat.[1] Not to be confused with Kilmaurs Castle that stood on the lands of Jocksthorn Farm.

  1. ^ Metcalfe, William M. (1905). A History of the County of Renfrew from the Earliest Times. Paisley : Alexander Gardner. p. 121

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