Kerse Castle

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Kerse Castle
Possible location of Kerse Castle

Possible location of Kerse Castle

Alternative name (s): Carse Castle
Creation time : 13th Century
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Scottish nobility
Place: Dalrymple
Geographical location 55 ° 23 '45.6 "  N , 4 ° 28' 1.2"  W Coordinates: 55 ° 23 '45.6 "  N , 4 ° 28' 1.2"  W.
Kerse Castle (Scotland)
Kerse Castle

Kerse Castle or Carse Castle is a castle stables in the village of Dalrymple in the Scottish management unit East Ayrshire . The fortress dates back to the 13th century and once belonged to the Crawford clan .

There is no precise picture or description of the fortress. The location of the fortress is clear, as there are extensive ramparts and ditches along the Bow Burn , possible platforms for buildings, apple trees and clearly man-made plantings such as beeches and horse chestnuts . In addition, there are nettles indicating former garbage dumps, evidence from old maps, marching dikes, place names that indicate the fortress (e.g. Kerse Bridge, Kerse Cottage) etc. The now-abandoned Holehouse Railway Branchline was built through the upper part of the property which both damaged it and introduced possible anomalies.

It is said that the fate of Kerse Castle was that it was dismantled around 1760 by Mr Ross of Sandwick to build Skeldon House .

Cartographic evidence

The Kerse Burn at the old Kerse record factory as an outflow from the lake

Robert Gordon's map from 1636–1652 shows a "Castle of Cars" near the lake. The map by Blaeu around 1654 (from a map by Timothy Pont around 1600) shows "Cars Castle" with extensive property and light forest. Moll's map from 1745 shows the castle east of the lake. Roy's map from 1747 lists the castle as "Carse", also east of the lake. In 1821 the lake is clearly marked and “Kerse” is shown towards Sundrum Water . 1832 Thomson's map shows a "Carse" dwelling on a street east of it.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Martin Coventry: Castles of the Clans . Goblinshead, Musselburgh 2010. ISBN 1-899874-36-4 . P. 129.
  2. ^ Rob Close, Anne Riches: Ayrshire and Arran, The Buildings of Scotland . Yale University Press, New Haven 2012. ISBN 978-0-300-14170-2 . P. 609.
  3. ↑ Cunningham; Maps by Robert & James Gordon, ca.1636–1652 . National Library of Scotland. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
  4. ^ Coila Provincia [or The Province of Kyle auct. Timoth. Pont: Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, 1654] . National Library of Scotland. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
  5. ↑ The South Part of the Shire of Air [i. e. Ayr , containing Kyle and Carrick: Maps by Herman Moll] . National Library of Scotland. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
  6. ^ Roy Military Survey of Scotland, 1747–55 . National Library of Scotland. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
  7. ^ Ainslie's Map of Southern Part of Scotland . Retrieved September 29, 2017.
  8. ^ Northern Part of Ayrshire, Southern Part: John Thomson's Atlas, 1832 . National Library of Scotland. Retrieved September 29, 2017.

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