Natural Sites
Galloway and Southern Ayrshire Biosphere Reserve
Galloway and Southern Ayrshire Biosphere
Biosphere Office
Kirroughtree Courtyard
Stronord
Newton Stewart
The Galloway and Southern Ayrshire Biosphere is a new UNESCO Biosphere because of its combination of special wildlife areas, rich cultural heritage and communities that care about their environment. Biosphere designation will help people understand, define, sustain and enhance those special qualities. As an internationally recognised label for s...
Historic Sites
Stumpy Tower
Knockcushan Street, Girvan, KA26 9AG
Stumpy Tower also known as Auld Stumpy sits in a prominent position in Girvan town centre. The tower was built in 1827 to replace the former jail that used to sit on the southwest corner of market square.
The old jail badly needed replacing as its thatched roof made it too easy for prisoners to make their escape. Law and order restored, Stum...
Historic Sites
Mckechnie Institute
40a Dalrymple Street, Girvan, Ayrshire, KA26 9AE
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...
Natural Sites
Ailsa Craig (Paddy’s Milestone)
Off the coast of Carrick
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...
Carrick Castles
Maybole Castle
High Street, Maybole, Ayrshire
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...
Historic SitesCrossraguel Abbey, Maybole, KA19 5HQFounded in the early 13th century by the Earl of Carrick the remains include the church, cloister, chapter house and much of the domestic premises....