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    Polkelly Castle, also Pokelly, was an ancient castle located near Fenwick, at NS 4568 4524, in the medieval free Barony of Polkelly, lying north of Kilmarnock...
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  • moot hill of the Barony of Haining-Ross. Polkelly Castle (NS 4568 4524). The Gallow's Hill of Polkelly Castle was identified by a lone pine tree and King...
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    the legend adds the detail that eighteen men were in the dungeon at Polkelly Castle and the king, being weary after crossing Fenwick Moor, was given hospitality...
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  • This is a list of castles in East Ayrshire. Castles in Scotland List of castles in Scotland List of listed buildings in East Ayrshire Coventry, Martin...
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    Campbells of Loudoun, who held it into the 19th century. The former tower of Polkelly lay near Rowallan and was also held by the Mures, for a time passed to...
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    hand of Sir Walter Cuming, and was compelled to keep close in his castle of Polkelly until Alexander III raised sufficient forces to subdue Cuming and...
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    Wordsworth Editions. ISBN 1-84022-511-4. Bessie Dunlop of Lynn Rowallan Castle Polkelly Castle Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dalmusternock, East Ayrshire...
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    Caldwell, East Renfrewshire (category Castles in Renfrewshire)
    larger estate by purchase. The most ancient seat of the Mure family was Polkelly, near Kilmarnock. When King David II was taken prisoner at the battle of...
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    an only daughter of another Sir David. She married Thomas Cochrane of Polkelly in the mid 17th century and much of the estate was sold at around this...
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    invested in the moor and it was decided that the souming was split between Polkelly and Rowallan. The souming was the number or proportion of cattle which...
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