- new farm
house at
Ellisland. In
November 1790, he had
written his masterpiece, the
narrative poem "Tam O' Shanter". The
Ellisland farm
beside the river...
-
Ellisland Farm lies
about 6.5 mi/10.4 km
northwest of
Dumfries near the
village of Auldgirth,
located in the
Parish of Dunscore,
Dumfries and Galloway...
- The Nith at
Ellisland Farm....
-
William Kirkpatrick of
Ellisland and
Shaws (1705 – 17
October 1777) was a
Scottish lawyer,
academic and politician. He was born in 1705 at
Closeburn Castle...
- keen on
stone putting and
apparently left his
favourite putting stone at
Ellisland Farm near Dumfries. If he saw
anyone using it
whilst he
lived there he...
- stonemason's apprentice. His
father was a
neighbour of
Robert Burns at
Ellisland, and
Allan with his
brother James visited James Hogg, the "Ettrick shepherd"...
- for Adam Smith,
James Armour's father-in-law. Adam met ****
Burnes at
Ellisland Farm as her
cousin Robert Burns had
taken her and her
brothers in after...
- Burns." In 1791,
before her
poems were published, she made the
journey to
Ellisland Farm,
partly to
visit her relations, but
Burns had that day
broken his...
- steamboat. This boat was
successfully tested on
Dalswinton Loch near
Ellisland on 14
October 1788.
Dalswinton was the home of
Robert Burns's landlord...
-
Robert apparently sent his brother-in-law Adam
Armour at dead of
night to
Ellisland Farm in
November 1791 to
smash every window in the farm upon
which he...
