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...

to the new farm house at Ellisland. In November 1790, he had written his masterpiece, the narrative poem "Tam O' Shanter". The Ellisland farm beside the...

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 would...

Ellisland Farm was Jean Lorimer, her husband's heroine in a number of his songs under the name of Chloris. Jean lived at the nearby Kemmishall Farm with...

Dumfriesshire is inseparably connected with the name of Robert Burns, who farmed at Ellisland Farm on the Nith for three years, and spent the last five years of his...

Scott. On 15 October 1791 Ainslie visited Burns and Jean Armour at Ellisland Farm at kirn-nicht or harvest home, although he never mentions it in his...

Adam Smith, James Armour's father-in-law. Adam met Fanny Burnes at Ellisland Farm as her cousin Robert Burns had taken her and her brothers in after the...

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 had inscribed verses by way...

associations with Robert Burns who lived for a while at the nearby Ellisland farm. The mansion house is unlisted, however the stables and hermitage are...

The Nith at Ellisland Farm....

married and remained there for a while after Robert and Jean moved to Ellisland Farm, returning, aged four, in the company of his grandmother and aunts at...

cells on the second floor. The poet, Robert Burns, who lived nearby at Ellisland Farm, referred to the "Great Fear" of a French invasion of the UK as well...

" 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 arm...

her request; however, she made the long journey to visit Burns at his Ellisland Farm only to find that he was away on his Excise duties and then that he...

when he was 32 and his wife Jean Armour was 26. William was born at Ellisland Farm in Dunscore parish, shortly before the family moved to Dumfries in 1791...

The poet died on 21 July 1796 and the manuscript was at that time at Ellisland Farm. In January 1797 both Commonplace books were sent to Dr James Currie...

Burns Cottage Drukken Steps Ellisland Farm Friars Carse The Hermitage, Friars Carse Irvine Burns Club Millmannoch Mossgiel Farm Robert Burns and the Eglinton...

duties. A coaching stop and hostelry, the inn lay about 7 miles north of Ellisland Farm, Burns's home before the family moved into Dumfries. During their tour...

In February 1789 Robert Burns wrote from Ellisland Farm to his cousin, James Burnes in Montrose from Ellisland, saying: "We have lost poor uncle Robert...

sadness. As stated, the heartfelt poem "To Mary in Heaven" was written at Ellisland Farm on the third anniversary of her death. Jean Armour recalled that towards...

the poet was 30 and his wife Jean Armour was 24. Francis was born at Ellisland Farm in Dunscore parish, Nithsdale on the 18 August 1789. His first and middle...

family lived at Mount Oliphant Farm, near Alloway in the autumn of 1774. In the first Commonplace Book written at Ellisland Farm he deleted "virtue" in the...

was living at Ellisland Farm, her father's new farm being at Kemmishall or Kemys Hall, Kirkmahoe Parish, two miles to the south of Ellisland on the opposite...

Burns Clubs. Scotland portal Brow, Dumfries and Galloway Drukken Steps Ellisland Farm, Dumfries Friar's Carse Robert Burns and the Eglinton Estate Robert...

resultant songs and poems. From 1788, Captain Robert Riddell, Burns's Ellisland Farm neighbour at the Friars Carse estate, increasingly became a mentor....

acquaintences'. They remained friends even after Burns moved to Dumfries from Ellisland Farm. In December 1794 Burns became a freeman and burgess of Sanquhar during...

Located in a former RAF station, aircraft, military aviation history Ellisland Farm Auldgirth Dumfries and Galloway Dumfries and Galloway Historic house...

limp by me, which a Fellow had just Shot" referring to the incident at Ellisland Farm involving James Thomson that nearly came to blows. Of the work Burns...

with transferred his affections to her cousin "..up the Gateslack". Ellisland Farm is only a few miles to the south and Burns saw Dalgarnock as a romantic...

Northumbrian pipes, making some melodic changes to fit the instrument. Ellisland Farm, Dumfries "Robert Burns Country: The Burns Encyclopedia: Glenriddell...