page_title: Montfode Castle
section_title: Micro-history
hierarchical_section_title: Montfode Castle / Micro-history
caption_attribution_description: English: Montfode Burn and Ardrossan North Bay, North Ayrshire, Scotland. Long Craigs to the right and the site of the murder of the 10th Earl of Eglinton in 1769.
context_page_description: The remains of the old castle of Montfode or Monfode lie to the north-west of the town of Ardrossan and 1.5 miles south-west of West Kilbride in North Ayrshire, Scotland, above the Montfode Braes, in the old Barony of Kilbride. The remains of the 16th century tower are protected as a scheduled monument. The castle ruins are clearly visible from the A78 Ardrossan bypass.
context_section_description: William Montfode was recorded as being overseer to the children of Alexander of Cuninghame of Collellane in 1660. John Montfode, the last of that Ilk, was a commissioner of supply and also was appointed to the commission of inquiry into the state of the Scottish church in 1662.
  A James Montfoid in Saltcoats was subject to an 'Act of Deprivation of non-resident Burgesses of Irvine' in 1595. Dr John de Monfode is recorded in Robertson's index of charters as holding the lands of Braidwood in Lanarkshire.
  Montfode Castle is said to be linked with Ardrossan Castle by a ley tunnel.
  A Chapelhill lies just to the east of Montfode Castle and a tumulus once sat on the crest of Knockrivoch Mount, again lying to the east.
  A horse gin was housed in a circular building that was attached to western side of Montfode Farm.
  The entrance lane at the old raised beach has an unusual planting in the hedgerow of several common whitebeam x wild service tree hybrids.
caption: The outflow of the Montfode Burns into Ardrossan North Bay. The burn was the boundary of the old estate lands.
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