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" consisted of a single, but strong, massive oblong tower; built
as Grose conjectures, about the beginning of the 15th Century. According
to Pont, who thus describes it, it must have had a much earlier origin: 'It is a startly, faire,
ancient building, arrysing in two grate heigh towers, and built around courteways with fyve
low buildings.' It just belonged to ye Locartts, Lordes thereof, there to the Lord Soulis, and now the
chieffe dwelling almost for 300 zeirs of ye Lords Boyde. Neir to it is the stone Crosse, called
to this day Soulis Crosse, quher they afirme ye Lord Soulis was killed. " The authority of Pont
for this statement seems doubtful, in so far that in the charter granted by Robert the Bruce
to Sir Robert Boyd, dated the 3rd of May 1316, the lands are stated to have previously belonged to
John Baliol. the probability is, therefore, that the Castle was built about this period"
Patersons History of Ayr
Vol. [Volume] 2nd Page 167