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Kerelaw (also known as Kyryaw, Kerrylaw, Karrila, Grange, Kerilaw)

Introduction

The designed landscape at Kerelaw is fragmented. What remains consists of pasture and mature woodland and the ruins of Kerelaw Castle, which were once incorporated into the landscape design. The site awaits further development, following the closure of the school in the early-21st century.

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Features & Designations

Designations

  • Historic Environment Scotland Listed Building

  • Reference: Kerelaw Castle, Bridge
  • Grade: B

Features

  • House (featured building)
  • Description: The house was demolished in about 1970.
  • Earliest Date:
  • Latest Date:
  • Ruin
  • Description: The ruins of Kerelaw Castle.
Key Information

Survival

Part: standing remains

Electoral Ward

Stevenston North

References

References

  • Peter McGowan Associates with Christopher Dingwall, 'Kerelaw', in {Ayrshire Garden and Designed Landscape Survey} (Prestwick: South Ayrshire Council, 2007) [on CD-ROM]
  • Sinclair, J. (ed), {[Old] Statistical Account of Scotland} ([n.p.]: [n.pub.], 1971-9), Vol. 7, pp. 1-41
  • Gordon, J. (ed), {The New Statistical Account of Scotland} ([n.p.]: [n.pub.], 1845), Vol. V, pp. 426-74
  • Ordnance Survey County Series Six Inch (Southampton, 1854)
  • William Roy {Military Survey of Scotland} (1750)
  • Joan Blaeu {Atlas Novus - South Carrick/North Carrick/Kyle/Cunninghame} (Amsterdam, 1654)
  • Coventry, M {The Castles of Scotland} (Edinburgh: Goblinhead, 1997)
  • Love, D., {Lost Ayrshire: Ayrshire's Lost Architectural Heritage} (Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2005), pp. 44-5