Creepy Crawford Priory Ruins and It's Haunting Legend.

Crawford Priory is an estate house about 2 miles south west of Cupar, Fife, based on private land with no single owner. It is a former residence of the Earls of Crawford, Earls of Glasgow and Barons Cochrane of Cults. It lies just outside the village of Springfield.
Originally built as Crawford Lodge by the 21st Earl of Crawford in 1758, it was substantially enlarged and extended in the early nineteenth century by a sister of the 22nd Earl, Lady Mary Lindsay Crawford.
Lady Mary engaged architects David Hamilton, and then James Gillespie Graham, to redesign the building in the gothic style, adding buttresses, turrets and pinnacles effecting the look of a priory, although it had had no religious history.[1]
Lady Mary's heirs, the Earls of Glasgow, further developed the house. In 1871 the 6th Earl of Glasgow built a chapel in the east front. However huge debts forced the 7th Earl to sell off all his estates in order to retain the family seat at Kelburn, near Largs.
The house then passed to the politician Thomas Cochrane, son-in-law of the 6th Earl of Glasgow. An outlying estate at Priestfield was sold out of the family to the Martin (later Martin Smith Martin and Martin Smith) family at this time. Cochrane was created Baron Cochrane of Cults in 1919. Further remodelling was undertaken in the 1920s by Reginald Fairlie, including the removal of the porte cochere to the west front. After the death of the 2nd Baron in 1968 the house was closed, and gradually fell into disrepair and ruin. There are no significant remains of the internal gothic design save a cast iron balustrade in the D-shaped main stairhall in the east side of the building.
Some believe that even with the mansion crumbling away, Lady Mary Crawford, continues to care for her animals. Almost 200 years after she died, her spirit has been seen quietly wandering the surrounding woodland. Just as they did in life, Mary’s ever obedient menagerie follows her ghostly figure around the grounds of Crawford Priory.
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[@chiasanzes9770]

Lady Mary Crawford sounds like Iam she-bornt (sorry) 😄 I too love animals and love the nature. At the moment I am living in small village near deep forest and I been thinking even I need to move back to city inside couple years. After I die I will return in here as a spirit and appear in forest with my cats and forest animals. That's my plan and good for Mary if she done so too👍

[@Glenfunnyman]

You sound like kindred spirits, pardon the pun.

[@chiasanzes9770]

@@Glenfunnyman So it seems that we sure are kindred spirits as you say 😄.