An icon of the area Turneberry lighthouse was built in 1873, standing 24 metres high, it takes 76 steps to reach the top. The Northern Lighthouse Board commissioned the structure to warn boats about the nearby Bistro Rock which had wreck many ships throughout the years. However, what makes this lighthouse so special is the site it was buil...
Built about the middle of the sixteenth century, the Castle is the oldest inhabited house in the town. It was the town house owned by the Earls of Cassillis, the Kennedys, who spent most of the winter months in Maybole in those days. It was also the largest and finest of the twenty-eight lairds’ houses which were written about by Abercrummie...
The McKechnie Institute, which opened in 1889, was designed in the Scottish Baronial style with some Renaissance detailing by the Glasgow architects McKissack & Rowan. The Institute has a collection of memorabilia from Girvan and the surrounding Carrick area, covering areas such as Ailsa Craig, local trade, fishing, social activities...
An iconic island, Ailsa Craig can be viewed from all along the Carrick coastline. Jutting 1,114 feet out of the sea, with a base circumference of about 2.5 miles, this mass of very hard granite takes a different shape from each view point along the coast. Though its form may change from each angle it is viewed, the breathtaking nature of the vie...
See Scottish literature come to life in this 18th-century thatched cottage in the heart of Kirkoswald, Ayrshire. The former home of cobbler – or souter – John Davidson, the real-life Souter Johnnie immortalised in the Robert Burns poem Tam o’ Shanter, it features a thatched tavern in the garden, complete with life-sized sandstone statues of the ...
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