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Sites of Interest in Maybole
(Selecting some of the circled numbers on the maps to
the right will also link to pictures or sites) |
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Carnegie Library. High Street. This was erected in the early years of
the century by means of two endowments: one from the Scots-American steel
baron Andrew Carnegie and the other by Robert McQuater, a Maybole man who
settled in Dublin. The Library building was renovated in 2001. For
information on the current Maybole library go to this Site. |
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Maybole Castle. High Street. Probably built in the 16th
century. The castle marked the entrance to Maybole at that time. Photo.
Details. |
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Single cast bust of Robert
Burns. High Street. The site above the butchers
shop at the bottom of the High Street. It is said to mark the site
of the market in Maybole where Robert Burns’s parents first met .Photo.
by George Dunabie. |
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Auld Kirkyard. Kirkwynd. This contains the graves of some of Robert
Burn’s school friends and of some early craftsmen. Photo. |
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Collegiate Church. Abbot Street. This was the centre of Crossraguel Abbey's
activities in Maybole. Photo. |
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Town Hall and Tolbooth. High Street. This marked the southern entrance
to the town in the earlier times. Picture Photo.
Details. |
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Heritage Path, joining Ladywell Road to Dailly Road. One of the oldest
paths in Maybole runs from a recently landscaped area past an old bricked
up well and comes out at the site of what was Ladywell Tannery, one of
many until this century. |
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Sites of Interest Around Maybole
(Selecting some of the circled numbers on the maps to
the right will also link to pictures or sites) |
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Cassillis House. (GR 342 117) Family home of the present Earl. |
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Covenanters’ Memorial (GR 293 111) On an unclassified road off B7024
marks the field where Donald Cargill preached in the 17th
century and commemorates some local Covenanters.Photo
Details |
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Macadam’s Road at Whitefaulds Farms (Gr 295 099) John Loudon McAdam
was born in Ayr in 1756 and educated in Maybole where one of his earliest
roads is on the land of Whitefaulds Farm.Photo
Details |
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Baltersan (GR 283 088) Fortified house or keep built in 1854. Website. |
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Crossraguel Abbey (GR 276 083) Well preserved Benedictine Abbey used
until the late 16th century. Photo.
Engraving
Details |
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Kirkoswald Graveyard (GR 238 075) Last resting place of the original
characters Burns used as Souter Johnnie, Kirton Jean and Tam O’Shanter
in his famous poem. Details. |
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Culzean Castle ( Gr 232 103) Former house of the Earl of Cassillis (Marquess
of Ailsa) now owned by the National Trust for Scotland. Photo
Website. |
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Turnberry Castle (Gr 196 073) Supposed birthplace of Robert the Bruce
in 1274. Details |
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Duncane Hillfort (GR 277 118) Prehistoric settlement. |
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Kildoon (GR 298 074) Prehistoric vitrified fort. |
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Lochspouts ( GR 287 058) Prehistoric lake dwelling from the first
century B.C. |
