It is recorded that the collegiate church had a provost, six to eight prebendaries and two choir boys and therefore a fair amount of accommodation was required.

[4][5] Beattie records that the tower had a narrow entrance and a flagged floor with at ground level what appeared to be facilities for washing or bathing.

[6] The dovecot appears to be an adapted survival of an earlier monastic building as witnessed by the medieval carving of a face at the bottom of one of the crow-stepped gables.

[7] The old dwelling is locally said to have been used by Huge de Morville lived here whilst Kilwinning Abbey was under construction and was last occupied in the 1660s.

[9] The old collegiate church buildings would have been made use of in some way by the Cunninghames of Robertland from the time they acquired the lands in the 1530s as was usually the case following the Reformation in Scotland.

[12] Kirkland House is located off the Kilmarnock road on a lane that also runs up to the old manse that stands on the hill to the west overlooking the Tour policies.

[20] In the Statistical Account of 1791-99 James Watson was the owner of the tower and its old monastic Cistercian buildings, separated from the church by a garden, "laid out with excellent tafte, efpecially of the kind that is favourable to retirement and meditation."

Close and Riches regard Tour as having been enlarged for Robert Adams rather than rebuilt, the existing building having been added to already in 1823 by the Cathcarts.

The well stair has a flat candelabra-like cast-iron balusters and a plaster-panelled, coved ceiling with a central octagonal roof-light.

[31] Within the screen of the woodland policies near the south gate lodge was a large rectangular curling pond in an area known as 'Fauldfield' with no obvious source of water other than the small Woodhill Burn near the old Sandyford Cottage.

John Urquhart, has been informed by the locals that the well is named after the wife of an owner of Tour House who daily came to collect the cool water.

Mr. Findlay of Tour is recorded by McNaught as having enjoy the never failing water, of excellent quality, and refreshingly cool on the hottest day of summer[3] as late as 1912.

An opening in the ashlar estate wall opposite the entrance to Tour House near the Gate Lodge allows direct access to the woods in which the well is situated near the now demolished hamlet of Pathfoot, marked on the 1750s Roy's map as 'Old Yard'.

The original path down to the old hamlet of Pathfoot or 'Old Yard'[14] was located slightly to the east before the short section of typical ashlar 'estate' boundary wall was built.

Hugh de Morville of Burgh by Sands in Cumberland held the whole of the lands of Cunninghame from King David I, a 12th-century ruler.

[34] Warnebald's son Robert inherited and he gave the patronage of Kilmaurs church and half a carucate of land to the monks of Kelso.

[26] George James Cathcart, cousin to William, inherited in 1841 and a Glasgow based merchant, Robert Parker Adam, purchased the property.

[33] A copper alloy flanged axehead was found in a ploughed field (NS419404) and was deposited in Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum.

[38] A carved stone ball of fine-grained sandstone, 2.5 inches (64 mm) in diameter, with the surface ornamented by six equal, circular and slightly projecting discs was found at Jock's Thorn Farm (NS 417 410).

[23] St Maurs-Glencairn Church contains a marble memorial plaque to James George Findlay of Tour and his eldest son who was killed at the Gallipoli Campaign.