Kilmaurs Place - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Kilmaurs Place - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Kilmaurs Place, The Place or Kilmaurs House, is an old mansion house and the ruins of Kilmaurs Tower are partly incorporated, Kilmaurs, East Ayrshire, Scotland. The house stands on a prominence above the Carmel Water and has a commanding view of the surrounding area. Once the seat of the Cunningham Earls of Glencairn it ceased to be the main residence after 1484 when Finlaystone became the family seat.Metcalfe, William M. (1905). A History of the County of Renfrew from the Earliest Times. Paisley : Alexander Gardner. p. 121 Not to be confused with Kilmaurs Castle that stood on the lands of Jocksthorn Farm. Read more on Wikipedia
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