Kilkerran is remarkable for an excellent kitchen-garden, also by Mr. Hay, and for a singularly romantic wooded dingle. The rock through which the stream has furrowed its course down the face of a steep hill is of red sandstone; and the cavernous sinuosities, waterfalls, and cascades are of endless variety. Among the trees are some magnificent silver firs, but either more exotics are wanted to render the dell sufficiently gardenesque, or those which are there ought to be removed, in order to render it perfectly natural. There is an excellent gardener's house, and the garden is admirably managed by Mr. Cullen, a reading gardener, who is fully aware of the importance of not digging fruit-tree borders, or paring the grass edgings of the walks. [Editor's Note: Kilkerran is 4.5 miles south of Maybole]
