page_title: Kennox House
section_title: Micro history
hierarchical_section_title: Kennox House / Micro history
caption_attribution_description: English: The entrance to Kennox House and stables from near Gallowayford.
context_page_description: Kennox House is situated on Kilwinning Road between Stewarton to Torranyard in North Ayrshire, Parish of Dunlop, Scotland. The house overlooks the Glazert Burn, which runs into the Annick Water at Watermeetings.
context_section_description: Major McAlester of Kennox, then a heritor of Dunlop church, obtained the 1792 bell and Miss McAlester and Mr.Charles G. S. McAlester returned it to the Kirk Session in 1935 to honour the centenary of the present church.
  Charles Somerville MacAllister was one of the stewards at the great banquet held after the Eglinton Tournament.
  Colonel and Mrs MacAllister attended the famous 1839 Eglinton Tournament in what is now Eglinton Country Park and were allotted a seat in the Grand Stand.
  The Glazert burn, previously Glazart  has otters and the rare freshwater mussel (source of freshwater pearls) as witnessed by broken shells found scattered on the river bank.
caption: The old entrance to the stables and house from near Gallowayford.
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