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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 701811
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/701811
NS33NW 43 centred 33479 39512
The first document in the printed burgh records puports to be of 1205 but cannot be authentic as it stands and more probably dates to 1295. Irvine did have a charter from Alexander II, and this is the earliest evidence of burghal status, 1214 x 1249. It may have been dependant on Alan, lord of Galloway and passed to one or all of his coheiresses; it fell to Edward I in, or shortly before, 1304. It was subsequently granted by Robert I to the Stewarts and hence was recognised in 1372 as a royal burgh.
G S Pryde 1965.
