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2 unusual facts about Thorntoun house and estate


Thorntoun house and estate

Archibald succeeded his father and John became a successful merchant in Lisbon (Portugal), eventually retiring to live at Carmelbank (previously called Mote), adjacent to Thorntoun.

By the beginning of the seventeenth century Thorntoun had passed into the ownership of another ancient and renowned Ayrshire family, the Mures (or Muirs), a branch of the Mures of Rowallan Castle near Kilmaurs.


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Thorntoun house and estate, including Carmel Bank, previously a Cuninghame property lies towards Springside.


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