My aunt and uncle use to live in one of the big black and white houses
as well as the old school house(the white building to the right) at some point,
but as soon as my uncle retired from working on the Bute Estate(Mountstuart)
they had to leave and now live in the main town, Rothesay.

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Some four miles from Rothesay, heading south along the A844, lies the tiny coastal village of Kerrycroy.
The village sits just outside the northernmost gate to the Marquess of Bute's Mountstuart Estate.
It is at Kerrycroy that the road south turns inland in order to skirt the Mountstuart Estate
and the waters of the Firth of Clyde remain out of sight until the road approaches Kingarth...More...