Busbie Castle

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William Aiton's map from 1811 with "Busby"

Busbie Castle is an Outbound castle in the present location Knockentiber , about 3 km west-northwest of Kilmarnock in the Scottish management unit East Ayrshire . The castle stood over the Carmel Glen and its stream, which flows into the Irvine about 1.5 km south of it after flowing past the old Busbie Mill .

history

The settlement

Ainslie's map from 1822 shows the location of a Bushby settlement and Armstrong's map from 1775 shows Busbie Castle as a ruin, but still with its forests. The first edition of the Ordnance Survey Map, from the 1860s, shows a pre-Scottish Reformation Lady Chapel near Busbie Castle.

Busbie Castle had a small settlement of thatched farms nearby. The Ordnance Survey Map from the 1860s shows Old Busbie on the opposite side of the road from the castle. Busbie and Knockentiber have grown together over the years.

The castle

The castle was a simple donjon , about 15 meters high and about 12 meters by 7.5 meters. The entrance was on the ground floor and gave access to a spiral staircase to the knight's hall on the 1st floor in the north-west corner and to two cellars or storage rooms on the ground floor. The great hall had a large, open fireplace and two window seats.

In 1465 it was recorded in the Registrum Magni Sigilli : "Terras de le Moite," & c. 1539, "9 marcat. De Busby, viz., Lie Mote, Knokintibber, et Hallethornis," & c. 1541, "Terras de Moite, Knokintebir," & c. 1571, "Terras de Moit," & c. 1583, "20 solidatas terrarum antiqui extentus de Moit-Mowat cum earum mansione," & c. 1599, "9 marcat. Terrarum de Busbeyis (viz.), Lie Mote, Knockiutibber et Halythornis". In 1691 the lords of Busbie's apartment had six stoves and seven other dwellings were connected to the castle and its lands.

The castle had been in ruins since the 1770s at the latest and was demolished in 1949 or 1952 because it was unsafe for many years and there was no financial backer to secure the structure. H. Ritchie had Busbie House built to replace the old castle. The Busbie Estates and Collective Securities Ltd belonged to a rather large piece of land in the 1950s.

In 1894 McIntosh described the castle as "a prominent object in an otherwise monotonous landscape". and describes the loopholes and gun ports as well as a hewn cable that wound fantastically around the walls. He also notes that the castle was believed to have been three stories, no longer roofed, and quickly deteriorating. He believed that the building dates back to the 14th century and was believed to have been built by the Mowat family who came from Flintshire in the 12th century .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Ainslie: A Map of the Southern Part of Scotland . 1821.
  2. ^ A b S. Pyle: A New Map of Ayr Shire comprehending Kyle, Cunningham and Carrick . Armstrong and Son, 1775.
  3. ^ David MacGibbon, Thomas Ross: The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland from the 12th to the 18th century. Volume III. James Thin, Edinburgh 1990 (1887-1892). ISBN 0-901824-18-6 . Pp. 372-374.
  4. ^ Moot Hills . Archeology Data Service.
  5. ↑ Robert H. Urquhart et al. (1998). The Hearth Tax for Ayrshire 1691 . Ayrshire Records Series V.1. Ayr Federal Historic Society, Ayr 1998. ISBN 0-9532055-0-9 . P. 91.
  6. ↑ John Straw Horn, William Boyd: The Third Statistical Account of Scotland. Ayrshire. 1951. p. 475
  7. ↑ a b Dane Love: Lost Ayrshire. Ayrshire's Lost Architectural Heritage. Birlinn, 2005. ISBN 1-84158-356-1 . P. 6.
  8. ^ John MacIntosh: Ayrshire Nights Entertainments: A Descriptive Guide to the History, Traditions, Antiquities, etc. of the County of Ayr. Kilmarnock, 1894. p. 195.
  9. ↑ James D. Dobie, JS Dobie (Editors): Cunninghame, Topographized by Timothy Pont . 1604–1608, with commentaries and illustrations. John Tweed, Glasgow 1876.

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Coordinates: 55 ° 37 '12.1 "  N , 4 ° 32' 44.3"  W.