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Description: | This photograph taken in 1999 is of the Byre in Burns Cottage in Alloway, the thatched birthplace of Scotland's national poet. Robert Burns the first born of William Burnes's seven children spent his first seven years here. William had a seven acre plot beside the Cottage which he called 'The New Gardens'.
In 1900 the Burns Monument Trustees restored the Cottage to closer to the condition it would have been in when the Burns family moved out in 1766. Further restoration was conducted by the Trust in 1993 to give a more exact representation of the 1766 conditions.
This room is the byre which would have been added to the original two roomed Cottage which William Burnes brought his bride to in December 1757. The byre was needed to house the livestock which Agnes Burns managed on their smallholding. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1760-01-01 - 1764-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Burns Cottage, Alloway - the birthplace | Go to resource |
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