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Kirkoswald Castle is located to the southeast of the village of Kirkoswald, Cumbria, England. It is built from Penrith red sandstone and is still partially standing. History
Kirkoswald (Scots: Kirkossald) [1] is a village and parish in the Carrick district of Ayrshire, Scotland, 1 + 3 ⁄ 4 miles (3 kilometres) from the coast and four miles (six kilometres) southwest of Maybole. It takes its name from its kirk (church), dedicated to Oswald of Northumbria, who is said to have won a battle here in the 7th century.
The parish contains the village of Kirkoswald, the smaller village of Renwick, and the surrounding countryside. The listed buildings include a castle, now in ruins, two tower houses, one that developed into a country house, and the other into a farmhouse, and buildings formerly associated with a collegiate church. Most of the other listed ...
One of Kirkoswald's most splendid buildings is the College, its name recalling the days when St Oswald's Church was a collegiate church. Originally built in 1450 as a Pele Tower it became, after dissolution in 1547, home to the Fetherstonhaugh family, which previously lived at Featherstone Castle, Northumberland.
Upload another image See more images Turnberry Lighthouse And Keepers' Houses 55°19′33″N 4°50′41″W / 55.325777°N 4.844638°W / 55.325777; -4.844638 (Turnberry Lighthouse And Keepers' Houses) Category B 12991 Upload Photo Manse. (Now Glebe House) 55°19′41″N 4°46′39″W / 55.328032°N 4.777518°W / 55.328032; -4.777518 (Manse. (Now Glebe House ...
Maidens is a village in the Kirkoswald parish of Ayrshire, Scotland.Situated on the coast of the Firth of Clyde at the southern end of Maidenhead Bay, a series of rocks known as the "Maidens” form a natural harbour.
Grave marker for former slave Scipio Kennedy at Kirkoswald Old Churchyard, Ayrshire, Scotland Scipio Kennedy ( c. 1694 –1774) was a slave who was taken as a child from Guinea in West Africa. After being purchased at the age of five or six by Captain Andrew Douglas of Mains , he worked as a slave under his daughter, Jean , wife of Sir John ...
Hugh de Morville (died 1202) Baron of Burgh, Lord of Kirkoswald, was an English noble. [1]He was the only son of Simon de Morville and Ada d’Engaine. He succeeded to his father’s estates and later his mother’s more significant inheritance.