Tour Scotland travel video, with Scottish music, of the circular drawing room, on visit to Culzean Castle, a Scottish castle overlooking the Firth of Clyde, near Maybole, Carrick, on the Ayrshire coast. This drawing room was the main reception room of the castle, used for grand social and political occasions, the layout giving space for guests to circulate. Although designed by Scottish architect Robert Adam, the room was completed after his death by the 1st Marquess.
Culzean is the former home of the Marquess of Ailsa, the chief of Clan Kennedy. Culzean Castle was constructed as an L-plan castle by order of the 10th Earl of Cassilis. A drawing room is a room in a house or castle where visitors may be entertained. The name is derived from the 16th century terms withdrawing room and withdrawing chamber, which remained in use through the 17th century, and made their first written appearance in 1642.
The surname Kennedy was first found in Ayrshire, Gaelic: Siorrachd Inbhir Àir, formerly a county in the southwestern Strathclyde region of Scotland, that today makes up the Council Areas of South, East, and North Ayrshire, where the earliest record of them dates from 1185, during the reign of King William the Lion, when a Henry Kennedy was reported to have been involved in a rebellion in Galloway but died in battle. The Kennedys derived from a branch of Celtic Earls of Galloway, not to be confused with Galway, which is in Ireland. Their power and influence in that region was great. In fact, there is a rhyme handed down through clansmen and bards from the year 1300 which runs as follows: " Twixt Wigtown and the town of Ayr, Portpatrick and the Cruives of Cree. No man need think to bide there, unless he court with Kennedy. "
This castle is closed at present due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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