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Fairlie Castle

Fairlie Castle is a restored oblong tower castle located on a natural rounded knoll situated above a precipitous section of the Fairlie Glen near the town of in the old Barony of Fairlie, Parish of , , Scotland.
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Fairlie railway station and Kelburn Castle.

Railway station
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serves the village of , , . The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Ayrshire Coast Line. is situated 1,300 feet southwest of Fairlie Castle.

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is a large house near , , Scotland. It is the seat of the Earl of Glasgow. Originally built in the thirteenth century it was remodelled in the sixteenth century. is situated 1¼ miles north of Fairlie Castle.

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, , , Scotland is the historic home of the lairds of and Chiefs of Clan Hunter. The keep dates from the late 12th, or early 13th centuries, while the attached manor house is of the 18th century. is situated 2½ miles southwest of Fairlie Castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Largs and Millport.

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is a seaside resort on the Clyde coast of , with a population of 10,900 in 2022. It’s where Viking power in Scotland was broken, at the Battle of in 1263, and the Vikingar Exhibition is the town’s main attraction.

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Great Cumbrae is an island in the Firth of Clyde off the coast of , with as its only settlement, and a population of 1376 in 2011. The island is about 3 miles long by 1½ miles wide, roughly tooth-shaped, with a broad bay indenting its south coast.

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is a town in on the Clyde coast, with a population of 4860 in 2022. Named for St Brigit of Kildare, it was traditionally a weaving, potato-growing and sheep-farming town.

Fairlie Castle

Latitude
55.75427° or 55° 45′ 15″ north
Longitude
-4.84928° or 4° 50′ 57″ west
Open location code
9C7QQ532+P7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 299593900
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­castle
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Wiki­data ID
Q17830889
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Highlights include Fairlie Library and North Southanan.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Fairlie Castle”. Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.