Montfode Castle
| Montfode Castle | ||
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 Montfode Castle early 19th century |
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| Alternative name (s): | Monfode Castle | |
| Creation time : | 16th Century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg (Tower House) | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Scottish nobility | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Ardrossan | |
| Geographical location | 55 ° 39 '29.4 " N , 4 ° 49' 16.4" W | |
| Height: | 26 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Montfode Castle (also Monfode Castle ) is the ruin of a low castle northwest of the town of Ardrossan and about 2.4 km southwest of West Kilbride in the Scottish administrative unit of North Ayrshire . The ruin stands on the beach cliffs above the Montfode Braes . The remains of the 16th century castle are considered a Scheduled Monument . The ruins are clearly visible from the Ardrossan bypass ( A78 ).
history
The name Montfode is derived from an ancient Norman family of that name. The baronate was originally held by the powerful De Morville family ; the Montfodes were their vassals. The castle was near the Montfode Burn stream .
The castle ruins
Most of the castle was demolished in the early 19th century to extract stones for building a dam and, presumably, buildings at Montfode Farm where the water was used to power a flour mill. The dam and flour mill still exist today and the mill pond is now a wet field. The source of the water is not known. A Mr. Weir from Kirkhall made a drawing of the castle before it was cannibalized for building blocks. Paterson used this drawing for his drawing shown above. The map of the castle from 1769 shows no ruins and the floor plan of the castle is rectangular.
The remaining fragment of the Baron Burg consists of a single round tower with slits and an embrasure , which is up to a height of 8 meters obtained and has an inner diameter of 2 meters. Originally the tower was three or four stories high. A section of the wall is also preserved, about 7 meters high and 2 meters long. The entrance on the east side is surrounded by hewn stone, the tower and the wall are made of quarry stone and 0.7 meters thick. The location of this tower at an external angle could indicate that the building had a Z-shaped floor plan. Paterson described the castle as a large, rectangular building. He saw the tower as access to the upper floors.
A map from 1769 shows the replacement for the castle, Montfode House , on the site of the current farm. Roy's map from 1747 showed the house with a square enclosure wall that enclosed the house.
The estate
The Boydston Farm was once Little Montfode called, but to tell a local legend knows that in the course of a feud one of the lairds of Montfode someone killed from the family Boyd and as compensation for this Boyds spent Kilmarnock country. The location of the murder was well known in the 1860s and was called the Cuff Holm . The property was noted as “10 merk land”.
The Eddely Burn , who left the Nodle Burn in Largs is located, is marked as property of the laird of Montfode. The Laird of Bishoptoun bought land from the Laird of Montfode. Langhirst bei Largs belonged to John and later to Hugh Montfode as "5 merk land of old extent with commonage in the common of Lairges, 31st May, 1600". For 1600 the "5 merk land" of Gryffiscastell-Montfod is noted and for 1619 a "5 merk land" of Seidstoun as property of the "Laird of Montfud".
In 1467 King James III refused . to Thomas, Earl of Arran , a large number of properties including the Lands of Monfode. In 1482, an Instrument of Sasine for James, Lord Boyd , was signed "in the general arrangement of Montfode" at 9 o'clock in the morning.
The 1691 "Stove Control Rollers" show the following numbers of stoves associated with the estate: House of Montfode 4, John Patersone 1, William Boyd 1, Mathew Crawford 1, Hugh Boyd elder 1, Robert Miller 1, Hugh Boyd younger 1, James Gililand 1, John Boyd 1, John Wood 1.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Scheduled Monument - entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ a b c d James Paterson: History of the Counties of Ayrs and Wigton . Volume IV: Cunninghame . Parts 1 + 2. James Stillie, Edinburgh 1866. p. 52.
- ^ The Trial of Mungo Campbell for the Murder of Alexander Earl of Eglinton . D. Wilson & G. Nicol, London 1770.
- ↑ a b Thorbjørn Campbell: Ayrshire. A Historical Guide . Birlinn, Edinburgh 2003. ISBN 1-84158-267-0 . P. 228.
- ↑ Entry on Montfode Castle in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
- ^ Roy Military Survey of Scotland 1747-55 - Roy Highlands 1747-52 . National Library of Scotland. Retrieved November 23, 2017.
- ↑ James D. Dobie, JS Dobie (editor): Cunninghame, Topographized by Timothy Pont 1604-1608, with continuations and illustrative notices . John Tweed, Glasgow 1876. p. 329.
- ↑ James D. Dobie, JS Dobie (editor): Cunninghame, Topographized by Timothy Pont 1604-1608, with continuations and illustrative notices . John Tweed, Glasgow 1876. p. 133.
- ↑ Monfode of that Ilk . Self-published. P. 11.
- ^ Archaeological & Historical Collections relating to the counties of Ayrshire & Wigtown . Ayrshire and Wigton Archaeological Society, 1880. p. 132.
- ^ Archaeological & Historical Collections relating to the counties of Ayrshire & Wigtown . Ayrshire and Wigton Archaeological Society, 1880. p. 142.
