Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Dalquharran Castle

Dalquharran Castle, a fine mansion in Dailly parish, Ayrshire, on the right bank of Girvan Water, 5 furlongs E of Dailly station, this being 7 3/8 miles SSW of Maybole. Built about 1790, it was the seat of the Right Hon. Thos. Fran. Kennedy (1788-1879), who sat for the Ayr burghs from 1818 till 1834, and whose son and successor, Fran. Thos. Romilly Kennedy, Esq. (b. 1842), holds 4142 acres in the shire, valued at £5941 per annum, including £900 for minerals.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "a fine mansion"   (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites")
Administrative units: Dailly ScoP       Ayrshire ScoCnty

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