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Ayr
The county town of Ayrshire, at the mouth of the River Ayr, and the 'capital' of the Burns country. It became a Royal Burgh in 1202. It was in Ayr that Wallace struck his first blow for the independence of Scotland, and in the castle of nearby Turnberry that Bruce began the struggle which ended in Bannockburn. "Auld Ayr, wham ne'er a town surpasses,
For honest men and bonnie lasses",
as Burns called it, is today a thriving market town, centre of the county's administration and a holiday resort. Its features include the Wallace Tower (an early 19th Century erection), the Tam o' Shanter Inn, now a museum, a Burns statue by G.A. Lawson, put up in 1891, the Auld Kirk with its Kirkyard and Martyrs Monument, the Kirk Port and the Auld Brig the subject of Burn's poem 'The Brigs of Ayr'. See Brigs of Ayr, The.
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