[2] The Lainshaw Register of Sasines records that Laigh and High Clunch were part of the lands and barony of Pollockellie or Pokellie.

[2] In 1590 a band of pirates harassed shipping near Ailsa Craig and as a response to this act thirty hagbutters were despatched to garrison the house and fortalice of Pokelly.

[11] In 1399 Sir Adam Mure held the castle and upon his death it passed to his second son, the eldest obtaining Rowallan.

A royal letter of 1534 states that the Cunninghams had not been invested in the moor and it was decided that the souming was split between Polkelly and Rowallan.

[15] In 1594 William Mure of Rowallan complained of the excess of Polkelly's grazing cattle and geese on the moor, despite having obtained a caution of lawburrows on May 20, 1593.

[16] It is suggested that tensions had not arisen earlier as previously Polkelly was passed to younger sons of the Mures upon their marriage and this came with an allocation of rights on the moor.

[17] He also states that the site of a battle between the Douglas and De Mowbray families : "Syne till a strait place gan he ga, That is in Makyrnokis way, The Netherford it hat perfay; It lyis betuix marraisses twa, Qhuhar that na horss or lyve may ga."[17] Blaeu's map dating from Timothy Pont's survey of the early 17th century records a tower without any woodland policies.

[24] An old thatched cottage at the top end of Stewarton, on the B769 to Glasgow, had the name of "King's Kitchenhead", more recently called Braehead.

The story is told of a King, possibly James V, who whilst on his progress of administering justice was given hospitality at this cottage after crossing Fenwick Moor.

A version of the legend adds the detail that eighteen men were in the dungeon at Polkelly Castle and that the King added that if he was ever caught doing wrong again then all the old wives in Christendom would not be able to save him from the hangman's noose.

[7] King James is said to have found the remaining eighteen prisoners guilty and they were hanged on the castle's dule tree.

[29] Robert Craufurd of Craufurdland married Elizabeth Muir, daughter of the Laird of Pokelly in the 15th century and had three sons.