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Field Visit
Date July 1982
Event ID 1147492
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1147492
Loch Doon Castle NX 488 947 NX49SE 1
This castle, an irregular polygonal enclosure (up to 22.9m by 18.3m within a wall 2.4m thick and 7.9m high) formerly stood on an island in Loch Doon, but was re-erected on the shore (at NX 484 949) before the level of the loch was artificially raised. Probably built about the end of the 13th century, it first comes on record in 1306. In 1823 three dugout canoes were found in the loch near the castle gate; a further three were found in 1831.
RCAHMS 1983, visited July 1982
(NSA, v, Ayr, 337-8; MacGibbon and Ross 1887-1902, iii, 96-105; Bryden 1910; Shetelig 1940-54, ii, 153-4; Cruden 1963, 51-3; Dunbar 1966, 24-5).
