Fairlie Castle
The little tower house here overlooks the bay, and a steep ravine and Fairlie Burn...popular with walkers and dogs, as we discoered!
the tower house at Fairlie
16th century Tower
THe tower is small, but in very good condition (although you can only view the exterior). It has four stories, and a corbelled out parapet above. It measures 13.8m x 8.7m. The four floors are each subdivided to make smaller rooms, with a stairwall in a side wall.
Unusuially, the kitchen is on the first floor, reached by a small staircase from the vaulted basement
Fairlie Burn (very steep!) / the almost windowless walls of the tower
Ownership
THe castle was built by the Fairlies, who owned the lands here in the 14th century. They sold to the Boyles in 1656.
the tower is slowly being engulfed by ivy
the lovely dogs we walked with, and a long-time IBM engineer, too