Scotland · Still standing
Cloncaird Castle
Cloncaird Castle is a historic house near Kirkmichael in South Ayrshire, Scotland, originally built in the 16th century and remodelled into a country house in the early 19th century. The building retains a surviving 16th-century tower with an armorial panel dated 1585 and sits at the centre of a 140-acre estate with garden features, a pond, weir, fountain, bridge and ancillary stable and garage buildings. It is a category B listed private residence.
Its prime
1814
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 1814
What Cloncaird Castle looked like in its prime.
A composite building pairing a 16th-century large square stone tower with a rebuilt early-19th-century country-house front (the 1814 façade), set beside the Kelsie Burn within a wide estate. The tower carries a carved armorial panel dated 1585 and shows narrow slit windows; the newer frontage presents regular sash openings and a formal entrance, connected to low service ranges and ancillary stone outbuildings. Grounds include a walled garden, pond with weir and fountain, a small bridge and a U-shaped stable block.
Its story
The story of Cloncaird Castle.
Cloncaird Castle stands beside the Kelsie Burn near Kirkmichael in South Ayrshire, a 16th-century castle at heart — its surviving tower carries an armorial panel dated 1585. Towards the close of the 16th century it was in the possession of Walter Mure, a scion of the Auchendrane family and cousin of the Laird of Auchendrane who devised the murder of Sir Thomas Kennedy of Culzean.
The Ritchies later made Cloncaird their chief residence, and in 1814 the front was entirely rebuilt and modernised, giving the castle its current appearance. Ritchie died in 1843 leaving three unmarried daughters, and the estates passed to his sister's son, William Wallace of Cairnhill.
In 1905 Colonel Hugh Robert Wallace sold Cloncaird to Mrs Dubs, widow of Charles Ralph Dubs — and married her in 1908. After a time as a convalescent home, the castle, at the centre of a 140-acre estate with pond, weir, fountain and bridge, is a category B listed private residence once more.
Step inside
9 places to explore in 1814.
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Clans who held Cloncaird Castle.
The families that held Cloncaird Castle for a decade or more across its history — follow a name to its clan.
