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Alloway Auld Kirk & Burns Cottage | Burns Birthplace Museum | Ayr | Scotland

‘When, glimmering thro’ the groaning trees, Kirk-Aloway seem’d in a bleeze;’ [Tam o’ Shanter, 1790] Visit the graves of Burns’s father and younger sister in this 16th-century church ruin, ‘where ghaists and houlets nightly cry’. The 16th-century church was already a ruin by Burns’s time. Burns chose the kirk’s weathered gable-end as the spot where Tam first spies the capering witches and warlocks who subsequently give him chase. You can visit the graves of Burns’s father William Burnes and sister Isabella Burns Begg. Many of the gravestones bear intricate carvings, including Burns’s father’s, whose inscription was penned by the bard himself. Other notable people buried here include Lord Alloway and Charles Acton Broke. He was the son of Rear Admiral Sir Philip Bowes Acton Broke, the first man to defeat and capture an American ship in the War of 1812. ‘His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonilie, His clean hearth-stane, his thrifty wifie’s smile The lisping infant, prattling on his knee, Does a’ his weary kiaugh and care beguile,’ [The Cotter’s Saturday Night, 1785] This cosy three-room cottage is where Burns was born and lived until the age of seven. Take a look at the tiny box bed that young Robert shared with three of his siblings. Burns and his family lived side by side with their farm animals. In the kitchen, they ate their meals together, read by the crackling fireside and received their earliest schooling. The kitchen area is brought to life with a spooky rendition of Tam o’ Shanter, re-creating the atmosphere of the house where Burns’s imagination was first fired. Throughout, the walls of the cottage are daubed with fragments of Burns’s verse and a braw selection of Scots words, such as ‘hawkie’ and ‘crambo-jingle.’ Outside is the small cottage garden where Robert tended the crops alongside his father and brother Gilbert. The cottage was a privately rented residence and then an alehouse for most of the 19th century, before being restored to its former glory by the Burns Monument Trust in 1881. #scotland #robertburns #visitscotland #auldkirk #burnscottage #visituk #alloway #travelvlog #travel #dayout #dayoutwithkids #glasgow #ayrshire #uk #museum #history