SOUTHANNAN CHAPEL AND CASTLE, West Kilbride, Ayrshire.
About one mile south from the railway station of Fairlie, on the level
ground facing the sea, and with its back close to the railway, stands the
ruin of Southannan Castle. It has been an extensive structure (Fig.
1591), having had a high enclosing wall, with a courtyard and an arched
entrance porch to the west, defended with shot-holes (Fig. 1592). There
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Fig. 1591.—Southannan Chapel and Castle. Plan.
has been a considerable range of dwelling-house accommodation, two stories in height, along the north side, and smaller buildings on the east side, leaving a large courtyard in the centre, now forming the garden of the adjoining farmhouse (Fig. 1593). The situation is fine, and the edifice is backed by the high range of thickly wooded hills which extends between Largs and Kilbride.
The lands of Southannan were granted to Lord Semple in 1504. Chalmers says[1] that John, Lord Semple, in the reign of James IV., built
- ↑ Caledonia, Vol. III. p. 561.
