Cloncaird Castle is a privately owned. It is a 140-acre estate with castle near the small village of Kirkmichael, near Maybole, Ayrshire in Scotland. It is located next to the nearby Kelsie Burn. The Castle was originally built during the 16th century, and is described as having been in the style of feudal mansions of that period, with huge square tower, narrow spiral staircase, and other indications of the time to which it belonged. Towards the close of the 16th century it was in the possession of Walter Mure, a scion of the Auchendrane family, and cousin of the unscrupulous Laird of Auchendrane who devised the 'Ayrshire Tragedy'. This Walter Mure of Cloncaird was the actual perpetrator of the murder of Sir Thomas Kennedy of Culzean, and was assisted in the execution of his dreadful crime