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vaulted, with three ribs, and an entrance from the courtyard via a narrow passage leading to a partly surviving wheel-stair. The remains of outbuildings lie to the north and a well was recorded within the keep; a sizeable courtyard lay within the complex. The remains have seen some restoration and the lines of excavation trenches are apparent. The whereabouts of the records of the late 19th-century excavations is not known for certain.
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fell out of favour with King James III, despite his having been married to
Princess Mary, the King's sister. The lands passed to the King due to this forfeiture in 1469, these lands were to belong to the first born princes of the Kings of Scotland. In 1488 one Thomas Turnbull was granted the castle
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The Barony, castle and lands of
Terringzean have a complex history of possession, with the Craufurds, also Crawfurd, being the first recorded. This family had an armorial bearing of a Stag's Head and may have been descended therefore from the Craufurds of Dalmagregan. They also and separately held
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Terringzean Castle occupies the summit of a high, steep bank overlooking the Lugar Water and the
Terringzean Holm; a dry moat ending at the steep natural haughs or slopes, is still clearly visible as a protective measure against approach from the level ground to the south-east and south-west. The
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held the lands upon their resignation by one John
Campbell of Bruntswood. Hugh Campbell held them in 1587 and may have represented a cadet line of the Campbells of Loudoun. In 1621 Sir John Campbell and his wife Margaret Campbell acquired the lands from his wife's father, the Master of Loudoun.
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The small, irregular, octangular 14th-century vaulted tower has a splayed base and is constructed of courses of square ashlar masonry, 6 m (20 ft) high, with walls 2 metres (6') thick, is the earliest part of the structure, together with the wide wall at the north-west. The tower was
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with only the dovecot surviving from the old castle. The family had ceased to hold
Terringzean by 1467, the lands having passed to Thomas Boyd, Earl of Arran. At this time it is referred to as 'Craufuirdstone, alias Terringzeane' The Terringzean Craufurds were relatives of
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existed before this walled enclosure, possibly of a 13th-century date, indicating that an even earlier fortification may have been present. MacGibbon and Ross saw similarities between the tower of
Terringzean and that of
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acquired these lands and the castles of
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213:castle ruin lying above the
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645:Retrieved : 2010-10-25
602:"Taringzean Castle (43588)"
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859:. Edinburgh: J. Stillie.
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877:Warrick, John (1899).
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172:Circa 1696
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277:Lord Bute
241:stables.
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