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24 June 1911.
Saturday. Engaged all day writing up notes.

26th June 1911.
Trained to Glenluce & walked to Park Hay
Castle where I joined the architects. This
castle is an excellent example of the
Scottish castellated architecture of the end
of the 16th Century when greater refinement of
living had commenced materially to modify
the plans and details of domestic buildings.
It bears in the inscription over the doorway
the name of the proprietor who built it.
Thomas Hay of Park, that of his wife Janet
Macdowall and the date of erection 1595.
Thence we motored to Glenluce Abbey where
the only notable remains are the Chapter
-house of which the groining of the roof and some
of the bosses are fine. The style is late
and somewhat debased.
Thereafter we visited Castle Kennedy and
completed plans &c. It has been a
large mansion house more than a
castle and various features
suggest its date as near that of Park Hay.
There is little ornamentation about it but
its situation is picturesque overlooking the lochs of
the Inch with fine trees and beautiful
gardens around it. Got home at 8.0.

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