Head of Ayr, a rocky, precipitous headland in Maybole parish, Ayrshire, flanking the S side of the Bay of Ayr, 4 miles SW of Ayr town. Abutting from the northern skirt of Brown Carrick Hill, it has an altitude of 258 feet above sea-level, and consists of black, earthy, tufaceous trap, traversed at one part by a thick basaltic vein.Ord. Sur., sh. 14, 1863.
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