page_title: Lendalfoot
section_title: Carleton Castle and Little Carleton Fort or Motte
hierarchical_section_title: Lendalfoot / Carleton Castle and Little Carleton Fort or Motte
caption_attribution_description: English: Carleton Motte from Little Carleton Farm, Lendalfoot, South Ayrshire, Scotland. Locally known as Carleton Fort. A precursor to the nearby tower castle.
context_page_description: Lendalfoot is a small village located on Carleton Bay, parish of Colmonell in the old district of Carrick, now South Ayrshire, about 6 miles south of Girvan, Scotland. This is mainly a farming district, lacking in woodland, with a low population density. The village sits astride the A77 that runs north to Girvan and south to Cairnryan and Stranraer. Carleton Hill rises to 520 feet or 158 metres from the road and is the site near its summit of earth banks, an ancient fort.
  The Lendal Water rises from Loch Lochton and runs around four miles before reaching the village and the sea at Carleton Bay.
  Lendalfoot is the closest Mainland Scotland village to Ailsa Craig.
context_section_description: Carleton Castle is a 15th-century five-storey tower and barmakin, once held by the Cathcarts of Killochan that stands in a prominent position overlooking the village close to the Games Loup cliffs. The tower ruins still stand, apart from a collapsed section of wall that has been partly rebuilt at some stage and internal plastering suggests a later use as a dwelling. At the back of the tower pigsties type ruins survive that were still roofed in the 19th century according to OS maps. The barmakin or walled courtyard existed with towers at the angles on the area between the two glens and their burns. It guarded and controlled a mountain pass as well as the road along the raised beach. The tower had two vaults, one over the great hall and the second over the ground floor.
  A substantial earth mound, the Carleton Fort or Motte with a circular ditch and palisaded bank built some centuries prior to the stone castle stands across from Little Carleton Farm, damaged by the construction of the lane to the village. Standing close to the castle the motte may nave served as the moot hill where the laird's barony court met. No place name evidence for a gallows hill has been noted.
caption: The Little Carleton Motte.
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