PIRNMILL & MACHRIE
once the summer residence of the Duke of Hamilton. On the beach is the old boat- house, a beautiful building in its own right. Dougarie beach may be small but this is one of the island’s loveliest beaches and there is a handy changing hut to protect your modesty. The Old Byre visitor centre, café Thyme and Simon Thor- born’s pottery at Auchencar can be found up the road leading away from the shore- line - look out for the signs at the road end approx one mile north of Machrie golf course. Further along the coast is Machrie
Bay
Four buoys and a boat, Machrie
golf course,
which straddles the shore before sweeping across the
road into the glen.
Machrie Moor is the site of
Arran’s most impressive
stone circles. Many of them are barely visible above the ground but the tallest is more than 18 feet high. This whole area is full of an- cient remains. A little further along the coast a standing stone in the forest marks the grave of Fingal’s daughter, near to the remains of an an- cient fort, Grainne.
A path then leads down a steep cliff and across a stony beach to the King’s Cave. It is claimed that Robert the Bruce found inspiration here for his battle from a simple spider as it repeatedly strug- gled up its silken thread.
Coire Lochan
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