Macnabstone
Farmstead (Post Medieval)
Site Name Macnabstone
Classification Farmstead (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 42607
Site Number NS40SE 12
NGR NS 47516 00852
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/42607
- Council East Ayrshire
- Parish Straiton (Cumnock And Doon Valley)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Cumnock And Doon Valley
- Former County Ayrshire
Field Visit (July 1983)
Macnabstone NS 475 008 NS40SE
This farmstead is situated on the W side of Loch Doon, 850m N of Beoch, in the area named 'Macnabstone'. It comprises what have probably been two rectangular buildings (16. 7m and 8.5m respectively in length within stone wall-footings) adjacent to an
enclosure and a possible kiln; what may be another building (3.3m by 2.3m within stone wall-footings) lies in the NW corner of the enclosure. Pont's map depicts the farmstead of 'Macknabston' and Armstrong's Map records 'McNabbs', but on Thomson's Map 'Beoch & McNabston' is recorded as a single farmstead.
RCAHMS 1983, visited July 1982
(Pont 1654b; Armstrong 1775; Thomson 1828).
