Muirkirk, Miners' Cottages
Miners Row (Post Medieval)
Site Name Muirkirk, Miners' Cottages
Classification Miners Row (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 76378
Site Number NS72NW 11.02
NGR NS 6960 2641
NGR Description Centred NS 6960 2641 (NS62NE)
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council East Ayrshire
- Parish Muirkirk
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Cumnock And Doon Valley
- Former County Ayrshire
EXTERNAL REFERENCE
Scottish Record Office.
Specification and estimate for building Muirkirk Cottages.
Achitects: Michael Bogle and Scott, Glasgow
1791c GD46/17/5
Field Visit (February 1991 - November 1991)
NS72NW 11.02 centred 6960 2641
Site falls on map sheet NS62NE
Little now survives of the rows that were built to the W of the Linky Burn to house the majority of the miners and furnace workers on the S side of the River Ayr (centred NS 6960 2641); the last surviving terraces were demolished in the late 1960's. Elsewhere in the area, the stone footings of a double row of cottages survive on the W bank of the Catchy Burn (NS 7028 2644), while immediately to the S of the railway, opposite the site of the Ironworks (NS62NE 17), the footings of a row of six cottages can still be seen.
Visited by RCAHMS (ARW, SPH), February-November 1991.
NMRS MS 731/6.
