Cloncaird Castle
Cloncaird Castle near Kirkmichael in South Ayrshire is a historic castle of medieval and later origin in the valley of the Water of Girvan, in the Carrick district of Ayrshire that was the birthplace territory of Robert Bruce, King of Scots and architect of Scottish independence. The various castles and tower houses of Carrick, including Turnberry Castle on the coast, are associated with the Bruce family and the network of noble allegiances that shaped the Wars of Independence in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. The surrounding landscape of the Girvan valley and the Carrick hills combines agricultural valley floors with moorland uplands, and Crossraguel Abbey and Culzean Castle to the south provide the major heritage destinations of the wider Carrick district.