This is a list of castles in East Ayrshire, Scotland.
List
Name Type Date Condition Ownership Location Notes Picture Aiket Castle Tower house Late 15th century Restored and used as a residence Private Near Dunlop See Barony of Aiket Auchencloigh Castle Tower House 15th century Scant remains Private Near Sinclairston Barr Castle Tower house 15th century In use as a Masonic Lodge with a museum Masonic Lodge Galston Also known as Lockhart Tower Borland Castle Tower Castle 15th Century No remains Private Cumnock Busbie Castle Tower house 14th century Scant remains Garden of residence Knockentiber Demolished in the 1950s Caprington Castle Tower house 15th century Still in use as a residence Private Near Kilmarnock Extended to form a baronial house in the 1830s Carnell Castle Tower house 15th century Still in use as a residence and hotel Private Extended to form a baronial house in 1843 Cessnock Castle Tower house 13th century Restored as a residence Private Galston Corsehill Castle Tower house Ruined Private Stewarton See Corsehill, Lainshaw, Robertland and Dunlop Craufurdland Castle Tower house 14th century Still in use as a residence Private Near Kilmarnock Extended to form a gothic house in the 19th century Dallars Castle Tower House 15th century Replaced by a mansion house Private Hurlford Known for a time as Auchenskeith. Held by the Cuninghams for many years Dean Castle Courtyard Castle 14th century Restored as a museum East Ayrshire Council Kilmarnock Restored 1935-6 Dunlop Castle Unknown14th century No remains Private Near Dunlop Dunlop House is built on the site Haining Place Tower House 16/17th centuries Vaulted basement survives Private Near Kilmarnock Last used as farm workers accommodation Kerse Castle Before 1600 No remains Craufurd clan Near Hollybush Kilmaurs Castle c. 15th century No remains Private Near Jocksthorn Farm, Kilmaurs Replaced by later Kilmaurs Place Kingencleugh Castle L-plan tower house 17th Century Ornamental ruins Private Near Mauchline Part of the Kingencleugh House estate Kyle Castle Tower castle and barmkin 15th Century Sparse ruins Private Near Muirkirk Marquis of Bute Estates Lainshaw Castle Lainshaw House incorporates part of the old castle Private Stewarton See Corsehill, Lainshaw, Robertland and Dunlop Lefnoreis Castle Tower Castle 15th Century Foundations only Great Steward of Scotland Trust Cumnock Sometimes known as Lochnorris Loch Doon Castle (Balloch Castle) Late 13th century (rebuilt 1930s) Ruined Historic Scotland Loudoun Castle Courtyard Castle by the 1820s Substantial ruins Private Near Galston Destroyed by fire in 1941, formerly known as Windsor of the North, incorporated into a theme park between 1995 and 2010 Mauchline Castle Tower 15th century Still standing Private Mauchline Also known as Abbot Hunter's Tower Martnaham Castle Tower4th & 5th centuries (King Coil) Ruins Private On the south-side of Martnaham Loch http://www.futuremuseum.co.uk/collections/people/key-people/soldiers,-sailors,-rebels-outlaws/king-coil.aspx Newmilns Tower Keep 1530s Restored and used as a residence Private Newmilns Restored in 1997 - locally referred to as The Keep Polkelly Castle Tower 14th century Removed Private Near Polkelly Hall Ruins used to build a road in the 1850s Ravenscraig Castle Before 1604 Ruined See Corsehill, Lainshaw, Robertland and Dunlop Riccarton Castle Before 1297 No remains A commemorative plaque is at the fire station Robertland Castle Tower 16th century The motte and a few stones remain. Robertland House was built from its remains. Private Near Stewarton Rowallan Castle 16th century Intact limited access Historic Scotland Near Kilmarnock In the grounds of a Golfing development. Sorn Castle Tower house 1409 Expanded 1909, in use as a hotel Private Templehouse Fortalice No remains Stewarton See Corsehill, Lainshaw, Robertland and Dunlop Terringzean Castle, East Ayrshire c. 1696 Substantial ruins Private Near Auchinleck In the grounds of Dumfries House Trabboch Castle L-plan Tower House 14th century Ruin Private Near Stair Much of the stone used to build the nearby farm
See also Castles in Scotland List of castles in Scotland List of listed buildings in East Ayrshire
Notes
References Coventry, Martin (2001) The Castles of Scotland, 3rd Ed. Scotland: Goblinshead Coventry, Martin (2010) Castles of the Clans Scotland: Goblinshead Pattullo, Nan (1974) Castles, Houses and Gardens of Scotland Edinburgh: Denburn Press