Alloway
Burns' birthplace, and the scene of his "Tam o' Shanter," lies on the right bank of the "bonny Doon" miles S. of the town of Ayr. The "auld clay biggin," in which the poet was born on Jan. 25, 1759, was in 1880 converted into a Burns Museum. The "haunted kirk" still stands, a roofless ruin, near the "auld brig"; and close by is the Burns monument (1820).