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Crossraguel
CROSSRAGUEL, or Crossregal, (written also
Crossraguel, Crossregal, Crosragmol, Crossregall, Crossreguil, and
Crossragwell), a celebrated Cluniac abbey, now in ruins, in the parish
of Kirkoswald in Ayrshire, 2 miles south-west of Maybole. It is
situated on a broad ridge of ground which rises considerably above
sea-level, but on a part of the ridge which sinks somewhat under the
level of the immediate environs, and amidst marshy ground. The walls
have greatly crumbled down, and it has long been unroofed, but it
still presents an imposing front to the passer-by on the highway
towards the east, and is one of the most entire ecclesiastical
edifices of the period. This abbey was founded by Duncan, Earl of
Carrick, about the year 1240. The last abbot was the celebrated
Quentin Kennedy, who died in 1564. Grose has given three views of the
ruins, and a minute description of them as they existed in 1796, —
supplied by a gentleman resident in the neighbourhood, — of which the
following is an extract...
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