Carleton Castle
Tower House (Medieval)
Site Name Carleton Castle
Classification Tower House (Medieval)
Canmore ID 61968
Site Number NX18NW 2
NGR NX 13308 89522
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/61968
- Council South Ayrshire
- Parish Colmonell
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Kyle And Carrick
- Former County Ayrshire
NX18NW 2 13302 89521.
(NX 13308951) Carleton Castle (NR) (Remains of)
OS 6" map (1957)
A tower of the period 1400-1542, of quadrilateral form with walls 6' thick, standing five storeys high. Part of the vaulted ground and hall floor still remains. Otherwise the structure is much ruined, the SE angle having fallen out entirely. The entrance was probably in the SE angle, at the level of the hall floor. Traces still exist of a wall and two corner towers enclosing a courtyard on the tongue of land between the two burns.
D MacGibbon and T Ross 1889
Carleton Castle (name confirmed) is generally as described although the authority is mis-oriented. For SE read NE. Much of the NE angle wall has been replaced by a modern wall. The east wall, where it survives is 2.3m thick. Slight, unsurveyable indications of a wall lie c 10m NE of the tower.
Visited by OS (RD) 21 December 1970
No change from previous field report.
Visited by OS (JRL) 22 March 1977
Field Visit (June 1981)
Carleton Castle NX 133 895 NX18NW 2
This oblong five-storeyed tower-house is probably of 15th-century date. Only the shell of the building now remains, and the greater part of the NE angle has fallen to be partially replaced by a 19th-centurv wall.
RCAHMS 1981, visited June 1981
(Paterson 1863-6, ii, 131, 135; MacGibbon and Ross 1887-92, iii, 209-10)