Dunure Castle

Actually I took this yesterday when we drove home the coastal road..... but today has been dreich with no light whatsoever.  We have had a chilled back day, with church, lunch, ironing, reading, you know the kind of thing.  This will have to do.

From the Internet
Dunure Castle is located on the west coast of Scotland, in South Ayrshire, about five miles (eight kilometres) south of Ayr and close to the village of Dunure. Today the castle stands in ruins on a rocky promontory on the Carrick coast, overlooking the small harbour of Dunure.
The castle is the point of origin of the Kennedys of Carrick (not to be confused with the American Kennedy family), who once ruled over much of south western Scotland and were granted the lands in 1357. Sir James Balfour described Dunure as "a grate and pleasand stronge housse, the most ancient habitation of the surname of Kennedy, Lairds of Dunure, now Earles of Cassiles.
In August 1563, Mary, Queen of Scots, visited the castle for three days during her third progress round the west of the country.