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Alloway: birthplace of Robert Burns
Alloway: birthplace of Robert Burns Birthplace of Robert Burns, Alloway, South Ayrshire, Scotland.

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Fiddle linked to Robert Burns to be used at gigs • Nov. 13, 2024, 2:35 AM ET (BBC)

Alloway, southern suburb of the town of Ayr, South Ayrshire council area, historic county of Ayrshire, Scotland, famous as the birthplace of Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns. There is a museum alongside the thatched cottage where he was born in 1759 and a memorial built in 1820 in the form of a Grecian temple. The Brig o’ Doon, immortalized in Burns’s poem “Tam o’ Shanter,” is nearby.

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