Crosbie Castle
| Crosbie Castle | ||
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 Ruins of Crosbie Castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Crosby Place | |
| Creation time : | 16th Century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg (Tower House) | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Scottish nobility | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone , building corners in ashlar | |
| Place: | Troon | |
| Geographical location | 55 ° 32 '9.7 " N , 4 ° 37' 29" W | |
| Height: | 20 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Crosbie Castle is a ruin of a tower house near Troon in Scotland administrative unit South Ayrshire . The Fullarton family lived on the estate for several centuries. The lands belonged to the barony Corsbie Fullartoune . The ruins of Castle Crosbie served after the establishment of the country house Fullarton House as ice house .
history
King Robert II loaned the Crosbie estate to the Fullartons in 1344 . The castle was built in the 16th century. In the 18th century the old castle had already been partially demolished and converted into an ice house for Fullarton House; a pigeon house stood nearby. In 1969, part of the ice house was demolished to make it safe and the pigeon house was razed to the ground. The property was known as Crosby Place and later became Fullarton House just before the new house of the same name replaced it.
description
The castle was rebuilt at least three times; it followed the square shape common throughout Ayrshire . The current ruins are mostly remnants of the dungeon of the old castle. When the Lairds had power over life and death, criminals were incarcerated there before being tried in the Baronate Court. Many of the building blocks of Crosbie Castle were used to build the first full board house. An underground stream flows through the old castle dungeon, which makes it ideal for use as a cold store or ice house.
Close sees similarities in this castle with Monkcastle near Dalry .
Another building with this name
Another Crosbie Castle (also called Crosbie Tower ) is in West Kilbride in North Ayrshire .
Gallery images
A corner of the wall of the old Tower House
Wedding stone of William Fullarton and Anne Brisbane
The old ice house in the ruins of Crosbie Castle
The old entrance with a spiral staircase
Individual evidence
- ^ List of Scottish Feudal Baronies. In: The Feudal Baronies in Scotland. HappyWarrior.org, accessed November 30, 2017 .
- ^ Dane Love: Ayrshire: Discovering a County . Fort Publishing, Ayr 2003, ISBN 0-9544461-1-9 , p. 229.
- ↑ AH Millar: The Castles and Mansions of Ayrshire . Grimsay Press, Glasgow 1885, ISBN 1-84530-019-X , p. 80.
- ↑ Crosbie Castle or 'Ice House'. In: Troon History . Retrieved November 30, 2017. Archived from the original on March 17, 2009.
- ^ Robert Close: Ayrshire and Arran: An Illustrated Architectural Guide . Royal Incorporation of Architecture in Scotland, 1992, ISBN 1-873190-06-9 , p. 89.
