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Publication Account

Date 1977

Event ID 1017793

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017793

The Laigh Tolbooth, or Laigh House as it sometimes appears in the records, was located in the High Street, in the heart of the market place. The Laigh Tolbooth apparently fell into disuse in the sixteenth century... Tolbooths were removed in the early nineteenth century: the Laigh Tolbooth

in 1810...

Information from ‘Historic Ayr: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1977).

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