Knockdaw Castle
Castle (Medieval)
Site Name Knockdaw Castle
Classification Castle (Medieval)
Canmore ID 61938
Site Number NX18NE 1
NGR NX 15120 89714
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/61938
- Council South Ayrshire
- Parish Colmonell
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Kyle And Carrick
- Former County Ayrshire
NX18NE 1 1512 8972.
(NX 1512 8972) Knockdaw Castle (NR) (Remains of)
OS 6" map (1958)
The scant remains of Knockdaw Castle, a seat of the Kennedys (J Paterson 1847) have been utilised as an implement shed. It measured 9m by 6m, and has now been built up with brick and roofed over. The parts of the east, south and west walls which are still standing vary in height from 1.2m on the south to 3.5m on the east and average 0.8m in thickness. They are of mortared rubble masonry and contain no detail to date the building. Traces of a wall spring from the NE and SW angles of the building and seem to have enclosed an irregular area about 28m E-W and N-S. Its height varies from 1m to 0.5m and although a covering of rubbish and vegetation makes its exact outline uncertain, it was possibly a courtyard wall. No foundations of other buildings were noticed.
Visited by OS (JLD) 25 July 1956
The only remains to be seen bare those which form part of the implement shed, which is situated at the SE corner of a quadrangular range of farm buildings.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (JP) 10 February 1976
No change to previous field report.
Visited by OS (JRL) 14 April 1977
Field Visit (July 1981)
Knockdaw Castle NX151897 NX18NE 1
The only identifiable remains of this building is a fragment of masonry incorporated in the wall of a storage shed in the SE corner of a quadrangle of modern farm buildings 100m NE of Knockdaw farmhouse.
RCAHMS 1981, visited July 1981
(Pont 1654; Armstrong 1775; Stat. Acct., ii, 1792, 66; Name Book, Ayr, No. 16, p. 20; Paterson 1863-6, ii, 133)