Newton-on-Ayr Castle
| Newton-on-Ayr Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | 15th century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg (Tower House) | |
| Conservation status: | tore off | |
| Standing position : | Scottish nobility | |
| Place: | Ayr | |
| Geographical location | 55 ° 28 '26.6 " N , 4 ° 37' 32.9" W | |
| Height: | 8 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Newton-on-Ayr Castle , also Sanquhar Castle , was a tower house in Ayr in the Scottish administrative division of South Ayrshire .
history
The Wallaces had the castle built around the 15th century, but it then fell to Sir William Hamilton , Provost of Ayr ; he received it in 1539 from the king as a fief. John Wallace of Craigie conquered it in 1558 with 40 men, but she had it later to the Hamiltons return. But in 1559 the Wallaces had their possessions confirmed and soon moved in.
Newton-on-Ayr Castle was damaged in a storm in 1701 and finally demolished in the second half of the 18th century. Today nothing of it has survived.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Dane Love, Dane (2005). Lost Ayrshire: Ayrshire's Lost Architectural Heritage . Birlinn, Edinburgh 2005. ISBN 978-1-84158-356-3 . P. 17.