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alloway

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Al⋅lo⋅way

[al-uh-wey]
–noun
a hamlet in SW Scotland, near Ayr: birthplace of Robert Burns.
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Alloway

southern suburb of the town of Ayr, South Ayrshire council area, historic county of Ayrshire, Scotland, famous as the birthplace of Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns. There is a museum alongside the thatched cottage where he was born in 1759 and a memorial built in 1820 in the form of a Grecian temple. The Brig o' Doon, immortalized in Burns's poem "Tam o' Shanter," is nearby.

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