Little Cumbrae Island by William Johnson 1828

Castle Island ( gd, Eilean a' Chaisteil) or Allimturrail"The Island of Little Cumbrae"
(pdf) Humberts Leisure. Retrieved 15 Sept 2011. is a small

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, lying off the east coast of

Little Cumbrae Little Cumbrae ( sco, Wee Cumbrae, gd, Cumaradh Beag) or Little Cumbrae Island is an island in the Firth of Clyde, in North Ayrshire, Scotland. The island is known locally as Wee Cumbrae. Etymology The Gaelic name ''Cumaradh'' means "place of t ...

, and to the west of Trail Island, in the

Firth of Clyde The Firth of Clyde is the mouth of the River Clyde. It is located on the west coast of Scotland and constitutes the deepest coastal waters in the British Isles (it is 164 metres deep at its deepest). The firth is sheltered from the Atlantic ...

. It is joined to Little Cumbrae at low tide. The

castle A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders. Scholars debate the scope of the word ''castle'', but usually consider it to be the private fortified r ...

which gives the island its name was built in 1527, and was destroyed by

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forces in 1650. It is a square keep, and is said to have been built originally to prevent deer poaching.

Footnotes

Islands of the Clyde The Cumbraes Islands of North Ayrshire {{NorthAyrshire-geo-stub