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Ayrshire is roughly crescent-shaped and is a predominantly flat county with areas of low hills; it forms part of the Southern Uplands geographic region of Scotland. The north of the county contains the main towns and bulk of the population.
The Battle of Coilsfield was a legendary conflict associated with the vicinity of Coilsfield and Coylton near Tarbolton and Ayr in South Ayrshire, Scotland.According to antiquarian and traditional accounts of the past few centuries, the conflict took place between an allied force of Picts and Scots under Fergus I and an army of Britons led by 'Coilus', who in the context of the legend is ...
The Ayrshire was exported to the United States from 1822, primarily to Connecticut and other parts of New England. [4] The environment was similar to their native land of Scotland. The American Ayrshire Breed Association was founded in 1875. The Approved Ayrshire Milk programme, which licensed farms that owned Ayrshire cattle, began in the 1930s.
Crest: Viz. azure, three bells, the crest, a hand holding a dagger, paleways proper, with the motto, "I beir the bel." Motto: I beir the bel [29] Chief: in the process, armigerous clan. Seat: Middlebie: Belshes [4] Crest: A greyhound's head couped argent collared azure. Motto: Fulget virtus intaminata [Latin, 'Virtue shines unstained']
Reivers at Gilnockie Tower in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, from a 19th-century print Notorious raider Walter Scott of Harden's horn, noted in a poem called "The Reiver's Wedding" by Sir Walter Scott. It reads in part: "He took a bugle frae his side,/With names carved o'er and o'er,/Full many a chief of meikle pride,/That Border bugle bore."
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Montgomerieston, sometimes known as Montgomeryston (NGR NS 333 220) or Ayr Fort, was a small burgh of regality and barony [1] of only 16 acres or 6.5 hectares [2] located within the walls of the old Ayr Citadel, also known as Cromwell's Fort or Oliver's Fort, situated in the town of Ayr, South Ayrshire, Scotland.
The Barns of Ayr was, according to Blind Harry in The Wallace, a site in Ayr, Scotland, which was used as English barracks. [1] According to Blind Harry, a number of Scottish barons of Ayrshire were called to a meeting with King Edward I of England at a barn used as an English military barracks, only to be massacred and hanged, including Sir Ronald Crawford Sheriff of Ayr, Sir Bryce Blair of ...