Name: THE PINEAPPLE & DUNMORE PARK MANSION HOUSE [ruin] , AIRTH - 11.5 MILES CIRCLE
Start: 2024-11-16T10:00:00Z
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### About The Pineapple.

Both strange and beautiful, the Pineapple has always amazed and inspired visitors. It was built in 1761 by the Earl of Dunmore as a summerhouse where he could appreciate the views from his estate. At this time, pineapples were among Scotland’s most exotic foods.
A wide variety of unusual fruits and vegetables once grew in the extensive glasshouses and pineapple pits in the Pineapple’s walled garden. The grounds are now an oasis for wildlife and you can enjoy a peaceful walk around the former curling pond and surrounding woodland.

CLUB'S TOMB.
In the 19th century the part of the road adjacent to the Tomb was considered to be the haunt of ghosts, and on dark nights people rushed past the tomb, and were glad when they got safe across the bridge over the burn and down the road and had left the evil spirits far behind. A short story, reproduced in the pages of the Falkirk Herald on 30 March 1887, places such a journey at the centre of a doomed betrothal.

# Dunmore Park House - stately home, school and star of TV.Dunmore Park Estate is most famous for The Pineapple, but it is also home to some stunning woodland and several other notable buildings, including The Parsonage and the now ruined Elphinstone Tower.

Arguably the most remarkable structure is the imposing ruin of the once magnificent Dunmore Park House. The house was built 1820 – 1821 and designed by the architect [William Wilkins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilkins_(architect)) for [George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Murray,_5th_Earl_of_Dunmore). It was constructed from sandstone quarried on the estate and was finished to the highest standard both inside and out.
It remained in the hands of the Dunmore family until 1893 when ownership passed to [Claud Hamilton Hamilton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claud_Hamilton_of_Cochno) (not a misprint!) who had been renting it from the Earl of Dunmore for some time. In 1917, when the whole estate was broken up, the house and grounds were sold to Albert Wilkinson who then sold them on two days later to the Jones family, timber merchants from Larbert.
The house ceased to be a family home in 1955 and for a short time it became a girls’ school which closed in 1961. From then, until 1971, part of the building was occupied by the gamekeeper of the estate, but finally it lay empty and has been left to the mercies of nature and vandals.
More recently the house has found fame in the TV series *Outlander*, appearing in episode 1 as a bombed WWII hospital.

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