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Trabboch Castle is a late medieval fortified tower house located in Ayrshire, south-west Scotland. The castle dates from the fifteenth or sixteenth century and represents the type of defensive residential structure built by Scottish landowners during the later medieval period. The tower house would have served both as a secure family dwelling and a symbol of the proprietor's status and territorial control. The site survives as a ruin within the landscape of Ayrshire, forming part of the archaeological record of medieval Scottish domestic and military architecture.
Trabboch Castle is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5281. View the official record →
Trabboch Castle is a late medieval fortified tower house located in Ayrshire, south-west Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5281.
Trabboch Castle is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM5281.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Enterkine,barrow 550m ENE of (3.7 km), Auchinleck Castle (4.2 km), Auchinleck Old House (4.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Trabboch Castle's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Trabboch Castle stands on Stewartry Group, bedrock that formed in the Early Permian. The rock here is sandstone, breccia and conglomerate.