Robertland Castle
| Robertland Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | 1018 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg (Tower House) | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Scottish nobility | |
| Place: | Stewarton | |
| Geographical location | 55 ° 41 '26.9 " N , 4 ° 28' 44.4" W | |
| Height: | 140 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Robertland Castle is the ruin of a low castle ( Tower House ) near Stewarton in the Scottish administrative division of East Ayrshire . The ruin is protected as a Scheduled Monument .
description
The old castle was a massive building with a square floor plan and six floors. Cattle and horses were housed on the ground floor, the servants on the first floor and the family on the other upper floors. This defense and residential tower was surrounded by a moat that could easily be flooded from the nearby Swinzey Burn .
history
Robert Country Castle and the Barony of the same name belonged to a branch of the Cunninghames . The castle is now a ruin, of which only a few stone remains can be seen. Timothy Pont recorded the name of the estate as Over Robertland in the 17th century , stating that the castle had already been "completely removed". In 1800 the remaining bricks from this tower were used to build the perimeter walls of the enclosed garden of Robertland House on the other side of Swinzie Burn . These walls still exist today.
It is believed that the Montgomeries burned the castle after the murder of the 4th Earl of Eglinton in Stewarton in 1586.
In 1962, the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland visited the property and recorded that the remains of the castle and its courtyard stand on the steep, natural south bank of Swinzie Burn, with steep slopes on all sides. The entire length of the southern perimeter wall was recognizable, about 1.6 meters wide. The interior of the castle was probably divided into two sections by an earth and stone wall, 3 meters wide and 0.7 meters high. A low rampart in the west, 2 meters wide and 0.3 meters high, may indicate the course of the western wall of the castle. The preserved east wall of the courtyard was complete and stood about 0.5 meters high and 1.6 meters thick. The moats on the south and west sides of the castle were considered natural.
Many hewn stones were rescued from the moat and are preserved in the surrounding wall of the garden. These stones include a gargoyle , a rounded sandstone projectile and a stone with a sculptor's mark. In the garden wall is a stone with the year 1597 and the Latin phrase "Vita post fine erverit" (German: There is a life after the end).
On the gable of the property's farm are the letters “DMC” and apparently the year 1018. A pigeon house was an outbuilding of the country house. In 1764 the property was fenced in with hedges and ditches.
In 1607 Over Castleton , Nether Castleton and Fulshaw were part of the Robertland estate, which belonged to David Cunninghame , his son David and in 1628 his son, also David . Also Over Lochrig at Stewarton once belonged to the estate. In 1628 Waterland in Dunlop Parish also belonged to the property.
In 1770 lands and barons were sold, including the superiority of Halket , Hazelbank, and Waterland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Scheduled Monument - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ James D. Dobie, JS Dobie (Editor): Cunninghame, Topographized by Timothy Pont 1604-1608, with connotations and illustrative notices . John Tweed, Glasgow 1876. p. 353.
- ↑ Jean Lambroughton: oral testimony to S. Ll. Griffith. 2007.
- ^ Thorbjørn Campbell: Ayrshire. A Historical Guide . Birlinn, Edinburgh 2003. ISBN 1-84158-267-0 . P. 240.
- ↑ Robert Country Castle . Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
- ^ Dane Love: Ayrshire: Discovering a County . Fort Publishing, Ayr 2003. ISBN 0-9544461-1-9 . P. 100.
- ↑ Doctor Cunningham: Robert Country in Kilm Glen Rambo Soc. Annals . 1919-1930.
- ↑ Glasgow Journal, 1770.
- ↑ James D. Dobie, JS Dobie (Editor): Cunninghame, Topographized by Timothy Pont 1604-1608, with connotations and illustrative notices . John Tweed, Glasgow 1876. p. 115.
- ↑ James D. Dobie, JS Dobie (Editor): Cunninghame, Topographized by Timothy Pont 1604-1608, with connotations and illustrative notices . John Tweed, Glasgow 1876. p. 139.
- ↑ James D. Dobie, JS Dobie (Editor): Cunninghame, Topographized by Timothy Pont 1604-1608, with connotations and illustrative notices . John Tweed, Glasgow 1876. p. 318.
- ↑ James D. Dobie, JS Dobie (Editor): Cunninghame, Topographized by Timothy Pont 1604-1608, with connotations and illustrative notices . John Tweed, Glasgow 1876. p. 382.