Field Visit
Date April 1982
Event ID 1147517
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1147517
Turnberry Castle NS 196 072 NS10NE 1
A ruinous curtain-wall encloses an indented coastal promontory now partly occupied by Turnberry Lighthouse. The promontory is flanked by cliffs on the seaward side, where entry to the castle was gained through an impressive sea-gate, and the landward approach was barred by a broad ditch; the site of the landward gate is indicated by part of a portcullis groove in the curtain-wall on the N side of the modern access road to the lighthouse. On the highest point of the promontory, 20m NE of the landward gate, there are the remains of a D-shaped tower. The castle is on record in the 13th century.
RCAHMS 1983, visited April 1982
(Grose 1789-91, ii, 208-9; Paterson 1863-6, ii, 289-91; MacGibbon and Ross 1887-1902, iii, 110-11; Bryden 1910).
