Greenan Castle

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Greenan Castle
Ayr, South Ayrshire, Scotland
Greenan Castle from the east
Greenan Castle
Coordinates	55°26′19″N 4°40′12″W / 55.4386°N 4.6700°W / 55.4386; -4.6700
Type	Tower house
Site information
Open to the public	Private
Condition	Ruin
Site history
Built	16th century

Greenan Castle is a 16th-century ruined tower house, around 2+1⁄2 miles (4 kilometres) southwest of Ayr in South Ayrshire, Scotland. Situated at the top of a sea cliff, it was originally a promontory fort converted into a motte-and-bailey in the 12th century. In the 15th century a tower house was built by the Lords of the Isles, which later passed into the hands of the Kennedy family.^[1]