Kirkoswald, Ayrshire

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Kiroswald
Ayrshire
Souter Johnnie's House - Kirkoswald.jpg
Souter Johnnie's Cottage
Location
Grid reference: NS242075
Location: 55°19’50"N, 4°46’20"W
Data
Postcode: KA19
Local Government
Council: South Ayrshire

Kirkoswald is a village in Ayrshire, a little place strung along the A77 in Carrick, between Maybole and the coast at Turnberry.

Souter Johnnie's Cottage is found here; a cobbler's cottage now in the care of the National Trust for Scotland, it was the home of John Davidson, a cobbler ("souter") immortalised as "Souter Johnnie" in the Robert Burns epic poem Tam o' Shanter. It is now a museum, offering a taste of how the family would have lived and worked, with a reconstructed workshop with "Souter Johnnie's" original tools.

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