Notable Landmarks connected to the Adair Family: The Adair Family is one of the oldest from North Ayrshire in Scotland. This page collects genealogy for the Adair Family:

Adair Main Articles[]

Adair Family - Core family research page
Adair Notable People - People of distinction featured in Wikipedia, important migrants and others.
Adair Migrants - listings of notable Adair Migrants.
Adair Family Landmarks - Notable castles, cemeteries, monuments and much more.
Adair Disambiguation List - Adair Family people with identical names sorted.
Adair Baronets - Several lines of the Adair family featured in ThePeerage of Great Britain.
Adair Family Ancestry - Royal ancestors of the Adair Family - Including English, Norman, Irish, Scottish, French and more.

Overview[]

Adair as a unique family surname is traceable back to the early 14th century when Irish-Norman noble of the FitzGerald dynasty fled for his life and adopted the name of the family home (Adare Castle) for a new identity in Scotland. His descendants grew to significant prestige in Wigtownshire and then many were part of the potato famine migration to Ireland a couple hundred years later. More details can be found at Adair Family Ancestry.

Early Family Castles[]

Dunskey Castle[]

Dunskey Castle is a ruined, 12th-century tower house or castle, located 0.5 miles (0.80 km) south of the village of Portpatrick, Rhinns, Wigtownshire, on the south-west coast of Scotland overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. On a clear day, the coast of Ireland is visible 21 miles away. Dunskey Castle is a scheduled monument, a 'nationally important' archaeological site or historic building, given protection against unauthorised change.

The castle was home to the Adair family for over 300 years, with a brief period when it fell into the hands of the Kennedy family in 1455. The original fortification was plundered and then destroyed in 1489 by Sir Alexander McCulloch. The tower house was then rebuilt in 1510 by Ninian Adair which is when it took on its L-shaped tower house layout. This version of the castle would have had a curtain wall and a watch tower out on the cliff edge.

Adare Castle[]

Adare Castle, a manor house in Adare, County Limerick, Ireland. It is a great castle and the estate dates back to Norman times. Unsure of it's connection to the rest of the Adair Family that traces its roots to Scotland.

Kilhilt Tower[]

Kilhilt was the name of the Adair Family castle / manor home that stood in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries in the village of Portpatrick, County of Wigtownshire, Scotland. Nothing remains of the site today. Portpatrick sits on the southwest cost of Scotland and on a clear day you can see Ireland only 21 miles west. In the 17th century, much of the Adair Family moved to County Antrim in Ireland as part of the Ulster Plantation.

See Also Kilhilt Castle - Stravaiging.com

Castle of St John[]

The Castle of St John, also known as Stranraer Castle, is an early 16th-century L-plan tower house in the centre of Stranraer, in Dumfries and Galloway (Wigtownshire), southwest Scotland. It was built by the Adairs of Kilhilt (who originally came from Ireland) c.1510. It has been used as a home, a court, a police station and as a military garrison during the "Killing Times" of Covenanter persecution in the 1680s. During the Victorian era, the castle was modified to serve as a prison, and it was used as an ARP base during the Second World War. The castle was refurbished in the late 1980s and is now a museum.

Flixton Hall[]

Adair Family Seat in Suffolk, England
Flixton Hall - Lost Heritage
Suffolk Aviation Museum - History of the Adair Family at Flixton Hall

Adair Family Monuments[]

Adair Spring Monument[]

Adair Spring Monument is a tribute to the first group of Mississippi Saints that came to Southern Utah area in 1857 to start the Cotton Mission for the church, being called by Brigham Young (1801-1877) at the Spring 1857 General Conference. Their first homes were their wagon boxes, willow and mud huts and dugouts dug in the bank east of this monument. Their new home soon was called "Dixie." Their settlement became today's Washington, Utah.

Notable Places[]

Bahia Adair or Adair Bay, a bay in the municipality of San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora
Magh Adhair, archaeological site located near the village of Quin, County Clare, Ireland

Adairsville, Georgia[]

Adairsville, Georgia used to be a small Cherokee village named after Chief Walter (John) S. Adair, a Scottish settler who married a Cherokee Indian woman before the removal of the Cherokee in 1838. It was part of the Cherokee territory along with Calhoun and including New Echota. After the removal of the Cherokees, the village became part of Georgia, and the residents kept the name Adairsville.^[1]

United States[]

Adair, Illinois, an unincorporated census-designated place
Adair, Iowa, a city
Adair, an unincorporated community in Casco Township, St. Clair County, Michigan
Adair, Oklahoma, a town
Adair Township, Camden County, Missouri
Adair Village, Oregon, a city
Adair County (disambiguation)
Adair Lake, a lake in California
Adair Mansion, a house and subdivision in Atlanta, Georgia
Adair Vineyards, a vineyard on the historic Thaddeus Hait Farm in Plattekill, New York
Adair Park, Adair County, Oklahoma
Adair Air Force Station, a closed US Air Force station near Corvallis, Oregon
Camp Adair, Corvallis, Oregon, a US Army training facility from 1942 to 1946
Fort Adair, a late 18th-century stockade fortification and supply depot north of Knoxville, Tennessee
Mount Adair, a 5,178-foot (1,578 m) double summit mountain in Alaska
Adairs Covered Bridge, Perry County, Pennsylvania
Dr. John H. Adair House, Owatonna, Minnesota
Adair County High School (disambiguation)
Adairville, Kentucky

Family Cemeteries[]

Adair Family Cemetery (Georgia) - DeKalb County, Georgia.
Adair Family Cemetery (Jackson County) - Commerce, Georgia - Created for family of James McCord Adair (1812-1864).
Adair Family Cemetery (Murray County) - Eton, Georgia- Created for family of Edward Adair (1789-1864).
See Also : Adair Burials in Ulster - UlsterAncestry.com

Adair Family Landmarks

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