Dundonald, South Ayrshire

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Dundonald is a village in South Ayrshire

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Dundonald within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Dundonald in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Dundonald.-- coast par. and vil., Ayrshire -- par., 12,365 ac., pop. 8105; vil., 5 miles SW. of Kilmarnock; P.O.; contains part of parl. burgh of Irvine and the greater part of town of Troon; coal is mined, and sandstone is quarried; a little W. of vil. are the ruins of Dundonald Castle, the property of the Cochranes, Earls of Dundonald; Robert II. died at Dundonald Castle in 1390.

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