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Knockdaw Castle (also known as Knockda, Knackdaw)

Introduction

Knockdaw Castle no longer stands and nothing remains of the once sizeable area of enclosed woodland associated with the castle in the 17th century.

Key Information

Purpose

Agriculture And Subsistence

Principal Building

Farm

Survival

Lost

Electoral Ward

Girvan Glendoune

References

References

  • Peter McGowan Associates with Christopher Dingwall, 'Knockdaw Castle', in {Ayrshire Garden and Designed Landscape Survey} (Prestwick: South Ayrshire Council, 2007) [on CD-ROM]
  • {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)
  • Coventry, M., {The Castles of Scotland} (Edinburgh: Goblinshead, 1997), p. 232