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Irvine, General

Burgh (Medieval), Town (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Irvine, General

Classification Burgh (Medieval), Town (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 41950

Site Number NS33NW 43

NGR NS 33479 39512

NGR Description Centred NS 33479 39512

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council North Ayrshire
  • Parish Irvine
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Cunninghame
  • Former County Ayrshire

Archaeology Notes

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.

Architecture Notes

NMRS REFERENCE:

East Balgray, Irvine

Architect: Allan Stevenson. 1905. Adds and alts.

Plans at Darley Hay Partnership, Ayr.

Auchengate, H.M.S. Gannet

PSA Photograph Collection Acc No 1993/85

1987 10 Married Quarters, progress G/8141, G/8245.

1988 10 Married Quarters, G/8276, G/8343, G/8379.

These negatives not held in NMRS.

Irvine, River - Bridge Over

Engineers : Crouch & Hogg 1910

Irvine & District Water Board

Architect: ns. 1914. Emergency powers, aqueducts & embankments.

Plans at Darley Hay Partnership, Ayr.

Irvine, Inland Revenue Office

PSA Photograph Collection Acc No 1993/85

1990 general views G/9168, G/9202, G/9215, G/9234, G/9254

1991 general views G/9270, G/9320, G/9341, G/9359, G/9422, G/9437.

These negatives not held in NMRS.

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

PLANS:

S.R.O. RHP577 Crouch & Hogg 1910 - plans & section (engraved)

Nat. Lib. Earnock MSS 11 9 - 1 engraving

Nat. Lib. Water Colour Sketches by Thomas Brown, Vol. 88, No. 5. - 1 view of Irvine.

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