Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Airds Moss

Airds Moss, moorland tract (5 m. long and 1½ broad), mid. Ayrsh., between riversAyr and Lugar. Here Richard Cameron, the Covenanter, fell in a skirmish in Jury 1680.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "moorland tract"   (ADL Feature Type: "shrublands")
Administrative units: Ayrshire ScoCnty
Place: Airds Moss

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