Introduction
Coilsfield is a former estate, parts of which are now used as a caravan park and a cemetery. Coilsfield Mains survives. Robert Burns described the place in verse, referring to it as the castle of Montgomery.
- Visitor Access, Directions & Contacts
- Associated People
- Key Information
Type
Country Estate
Survival
Lost
Electoral Ward
Tarbolton Symington Craigie
- References
References
- Peter McGowan Associates with Christopher Dingwall, 'Coilsfield', in {Ayrshire Garden and Designed Landscape Survey} (Prestwick: South Ayrshire Council, 2007) [on CD-ROM]
- Millar, A. H., {The Castles and Mansions of Ayrshire with Historical and Descriptive Accounts} (Glasgow: Grimsay Press, 2004), pp. 52-3
- Close, R. (ed), {Ayrshire and Arran: An Illustrated Architectural Guide} (Edinburgh: The Rutland Press, 1992), p. 145
- Gordon, J. (ed), {The New Statistical Account of Scotland} ([n.p.]: [n.pub.], 1845), Vol. V, pp. 741-64
- {Ordnance Survey County Series Six Inch} (Southampton, 1854)
- Captain M. J. Armstrong and Son {A New Map of Ayrshire} (1775)
- William Roy {Military Survey of Scotland} (1750)
- Joan Blaeu {Atlas Novus - South Carrick/North Carrick/Kyle/Cunninghame} (Amsterdam, 1654)
- Love, D., {Lost Ayrshire: Ayrshire's Lost Architectural Heritage} (Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2005), pp. 49-50