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Description: | This photograph taken in 1999 is of the back of the thatched birthplace of Scotland's national poet. The only door seen at the back of the Cottage leads from the Byre through the Barn out to the Kaleyard where Agnes Burns will have grown the vegetables needed to support the family.
The plot had belonged to a Dr Campbell of Ayr and William Burnes lived here until he was persuaded in 1766 by Provost Ferguson of Ayr to give up his nursery and become overseer of his lands, moving to a leased farm at Mount Oliphant with a loan of ��100 to buy stock.
William Burnes the poet's father took a feu of this seven acre plot in 1757 in Alloway, which he called 'The New Gardens'. Here he cultivated a market garden, building the Cottage with his own hands and later kept a few milking cows for the family needs. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 01/01/1999 - 31/12/1999 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Burns Cottage, Alloway - the birthplace | Go to resource |
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