Glenshalloch Wood
Farmstead (Post Medieval)
Site Name Glenshalloch Wood
Classification Farmstead (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Glenton
Canmore ID 40871
Site Number NS20SE 20
NGR NS 28610 04450
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/40871
- Council South Ayrshire
- Parish Kirkoswald
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Kyle And Carrick
- Former County Ayrshire
A farmstead annotated Glenshalloch (Ruins of) and comprising one unroofed long building of three compartments and one enclosure is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Ayrshire 1859, sheet li) and on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1987) where the enclosure is shown incomplete.
Information from RCAHMS (SAH), 6 March 2000.
Field Visit (September 1982)
Glenshalloch Wood NS 286 044 NS20SE
The remains of the farmstead of Glenshalloch are situated immediately S of Glenshalloch Wood, 400m NW of Glenton, and comprise a rectangular building and a rectangular enclosure. Glenshalloch is recorded on the maps of Thomson, Armstrong and Pont.
RCAHMS 1983, visited September 1982
(Pont 1654b; Armstrong 1775; Thomson 1828; OS 6-inch map, Ayrshire, 1st ed., 1858, sheet i).
