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Scots: Coontie o Ayrshire;
- The town of Troon on the coast has hosted the The Open Championship twice in the last seven years and eight times in total.
- Dairy produce
- Ayrshire breed of cows.
- Turnberry Castle, which dates from the 13th century or earlier, and which may have been the birthplace of Robert the Bruce.
Ayrshire (also County of Ayr) is a registration county of Scotland, - a former administrative county in south-west Scotland, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde. The electoral and valuation area named Ayrshire covers the three council areas of South Ayrshire, East Ayrshire and North Ayrshire, including the Isle of Arran, Great Cumbrae and Little Cumbrae.
Ayrshire is a maritime co. in the South West of Scotland, adjoining the Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire, Dumfries-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtownshire. The coast in the South is rocky and destitute of natural harbours, but becomes low and sandy northwards from Ayr.
The largest lake is Loch Doon, on the South Eastern border.
The historic shire or sheriffdom of Ayr was divided into three districts or bailieries which later made up the county of Ayrshire. These were:
The East Ayrshire Unitary Authority was established in 1996 through the amalgamation of the former districts of Cumnock and Doon Valley with Kilmarnock and Loudon. The principal administrative centre is in Kilmarnock.
The three islands - Isle of Arran, Great Cumbrae and Little Cumbrae - were part of the County of Bute until 1975.
Ayr county council was created in 1890, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889. In 1930 the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929 re-designated the Burghs into large burghs and Small Burghs. The new categorisation influenced the level of autonomy that the Burghs enjoyed from the county council. The act also abolished the parish as a unit of local government in Scotland. In Ayrshire in excess of 30 parishes were consolidated into ten district councils.
In May 1975 the county council was abolished and its functions transferred to Strathclyde Regional Council. The county area was divided between four new districts within the two-tier Strathclyde region:
The Cunninghame district included the Isle of Arran, Great Cumbrae and Little Cumbrae, which had until then been administered as part of the County of Bute.
In 1996 the two-tier system of regions and districts was abolished and Ayrshire was divided between the unitary council areas of
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