Field Visit
Date April 1982
Event ID 1147505
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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Camregan Castle NX 215 987 NX29NW 4
A roughly rectangular platform has been formed on the NE edge of Camregan Glen, 350m SSW of Camregan. It is flanked on the SW by the steep sides of the glen and elsewhere by a broad ditch with a substantial external bank ( 10m thick and up to 5.2 high) on the NW and a low external bank (3m thick) on the SE. There are traces of a possible stone wall around the edge of the platform, and upon it there are the remains of up to three rectangular buildings, now largely reduced to their stone wall-footings, although one appears to incorporate a fragment of mortared masonry 1.6m long, 2.8m high and 0.8m thick. The castle is said to have been a residence of the Cathcart family from the 13th century, but the visible buildings are probably of later date.
RCAHMS 1983, visited April 1982
(Name Book, Ayr, No.19, p.119).
