Dundonald Castle is situated on a hill overlooking the village of Dundonald, between Kilmarnock and Troon in South Ayrshire, Scotland. Dundonald Castle...
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Earl of Dundonald is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1669 for the Scottish soldier and politician William Cochrane, 1st Lord Cochrane...
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Dundonald (Gaelic: Dùn Dhòmhnaill) is a village in South Ayrshire, Scotland. The village is mostly known for Dundonald Castle, which was built in the...
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Scotland Dundonald Castle RAF Dundonald Dundonald Castle, Kintyre, Argyll and Bute, Scotland Dundonald House, Belfast, Northern Ireland Dundonald Church...
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then from 1388 to John's younger brother, Robert. Robert II died in Dundonald Castle in 1390 and was buried at Scone Abbey. Robert Stewart, born in 1316...
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Clan Stewart (section Earl Castle Stewart)
Stewart, 4th High Steward of Scotland, also known as Alexander of Dundonald Castle, commanded the Scottish army at the Battle of Largs in 1263 against...
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Dundonald Castle is a ruined castle near Killean, Kintyre, Scotland. It was a stronghold of Clan Donald, but later passed to the Campbells. Coventry,...
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Clan Cochrane (section Clan castles)
to the Cochranes have included: Cochrane Castle. Auchindoun Castle. Johnstone Castle. see also Dundonald Castle. Cochrane (surname) Robert Cochrane (favourite)...
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early-to-mid-17th century; its ruins stand about 1 km W of Dundonald, South Ayrshire, Scotland. Parish of Dundonald. It was held at various times by the Wallace, Cochrane...
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Thomas Hesketh Douglas Blair Cochrane, 13th Earl of Dundonald (21 February 1886 – 23 May 1958) was an officer in the British Army who served in World...
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strengthen the now changed political outlook in that region. He returned to Dundonald Castle in Ayrshire in March where he died on 19 April and was buried at Scone...
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uncertain, although there is reason to suspect it was either Dundonald Castle or Renfrew Castle. Walter was a benefactor of several religious houses, and...
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Britain under the Kindertransport programme. At the war's end, the Dundonalds sold the castle. For the next forty years it operated as a tourist attraction...
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December 2022). "Chapter 8 Part Two: The Last Stewart Kings at Dundonald Castle". Dundonald Castle and Visitor Centre. Archived from the original on 4 December...
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Gallagher, D; Holden, T; Hunter, F; Sanderson, D; Thoms, J (2004). "Dundonald Castle Excavations, 1986–93". Scottish Archaeological Journal. 26 (1–2): i–x...
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of Dundonald in 1647, and Earl of Dundonald in 1669. It was purchased by the Johnstones of Cochrane around 1760. A monument to commemorate the castle was...
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Clan Donald (section Castles)
public. Knock Castle (Isle of Skye) is a ruined Macdonald castle located on the Isle of Skye. Duntulm Castle is a ruined MacDonald castle located on the...
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Troon (section Crosbie Castle)
the castle was rebuilt three times, in the same typical square design as seen at Dundonald Castle. The remains today mainly represent the Castle's dungeon...
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Douglas Richard Cochrane (born 1995) Dundonald and his wife separated and were divorced in 2011. He lives at Lochnell Castle and is the honorary Chilean consul...
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Lieutenant General Douglas Mackinnon Baillie Hamilton Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald, KCB, KCVO (29 October 1852 – 12 April 1935), styled Lord Cochrane between...
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Ross who contracted to marry Fife's daughter. King Robert II died at Dundonald Castle in Ayrshire on 19 April 1390 and the chronicler Wyntoun informs that...
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Alchemist, modern version of the folktale Upsall Castle, another English version of the folktale Dundonald Castle, Scottish version of the folktale English folklore...
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once supposedly existed in Fullarton, south of the present harbour. Dundonald Castle once had a chapel dedicated to Saint Inan. Inchinnan (Renfrewshire)...
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to abdicate, and fled to England, where she was imprisoned in various castles and manor houses for eighteen years and finally executed for treason against...
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eponym of Dunmail Raise in England, and possibly Cardonald and Dundonald/Dundonald Castle in Scotland. For hundreds of years until the late ninth century...
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construction of Doune Castle, which remains largely intact today. When Stewart became Earl of Menteith, he was granted the lands on which Doune Castle now stands...
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Eglinton Street. Ley tunnels are said to run from Seagate Castle to Stanecastle and to Dundonald Castle. In 1859 the crowds at the Robert Burns Centenary celebrations...
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William Cochrane, 1st Earl of Dundonald (1605– November 1685) supported the Royalist cause during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Cochrane was the eldest...
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Cumbrian royal dynasty. This name lays behind the place name of Dundonald/Dundonald Castle (grid reference NS3636034517), derived from the British *Din Dyfnwal...
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to abdicate, and fled to England, where she was imprisoned in various castles and manor houses for eighteen years and finally executed for treason against...
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