North Ayrshire

North Ayrshire Sìorrachd Inbhir Air a Tuath
Administrative headquarters	Irvine
surface	885 km² (17.)
Residents	137,560 (2012) (15.)
ISO 3166-2	GB-NAY
ONS code	00QY
Website	www.north-ayrshire.gov.uk

North Ayrshire ( Gaelic Sìorrachd Inbhir Air a Tuath ) is one of 32  Council Areas in Scotland . The mainland is in the traditional county of Ayrshire and borders Renfrewshire , East Ayrshire and South Ayrshire . The county also includes Arran Island in traditional Bute County and some islands in the Firth of Clyde (including Great Cumbrae and Little Cumbrae ). From 1975 to 1996 North Ayrshire formed a district of the Strathclyde region under the name Cunninghame .

places

Mainland

Ardrossan Barrmill Benslie Bourtreehill Beith Chapeltoun Cunninghamhead Dalry Dreghorn

Fairlie Fergushill Gateside Girdle great Hessilhead Irvine Kilbirnie Kilwinning Largs

Percetone Portencross Saltcoats Seamill Skelmorlie Springside Stevenston West Kilbride

Arran Island

• Brodick
• Blackwaterfoot
• Lamlash
• Lochranza

Cumbraes Island

• Millport

Attractions

• The Fairlie Stone is located in the Parish Church of Fairlie .
• Brodick Castle
• the Cairns or Clyde tombs from:
  • Auchagallion
  • Carn Ban
  • Monamors
  • Torrylin
• the duns
  • Kilpatrick
  • Caisteal Torr (or Torr a'Caistel)
• Machrie Moor with stone circles , stone boxes and menhirs
• Glen Cloy, near Brodick, is a roundhouse excavated in 2001 with a complex basement from the 2nd or 1st century BC. Chr.

See also: List of Category A structures in North Ayrshire

politics

The North Ayrshire Council has 33 seats distributed among the parties as follows:

Political party	Seats
Labor	11
SNP	11
Conservative	7th
Independently	4th

literature

• George Mudie: Auchrannie Community / Leisure Center, Glen Cloy, Arran, North Ayrshire (Kilbride parish), 'watching brief', Discovery Excav Scot, Vol. 2, 2001. p. 69

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mid-2012 Population ( Memento from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.2 MB)
2. ↑ http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/E1471576708000181 Excavations on the site of a late Iron Age roundhouse and souterrain, Glen Cloy, Brodick, Isle of Arran
3. ↑ Results of the regional elections 2017

Web links

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