Parish Noticeboard Manufacturers In Kilbirnie, North Ayrshire

Kilbirnie (Gaelic: Cill Bhraonaigh) is a little town of 7,280 (as of 2001) inhabitants situated in the Garnock Valley area of North Ayrshire, on the west coast of Scotland. It is roughly 20 miles (30 km) southwest of Glasgow and approximately 10 miles (16 kilometres) from Paisley and 13 miles (21 kilometres) from Irvine respectively. Historically, the town’s main industries were flax production and weaving in the past iron and steelmaking took over in the 19th and upfront 20th centuries. The suburb of Kilbirnie in the New Zealand capital of Wellington is named after the town.

Archaeological digs conducted in the 19th century have shown that the Place was inhabited during the Bronze Age. A crannog past a connecting causeway was discovered in Kilbirnie Loch. In 1792 Mr Dickie, the miller at the Nether Mill, was building the road close the mill pond later than he outside an empty stone coffin, 6.5 feet long by 2.5 feet wide. He is recorded to have damage up the coffin and used it in the road’s construction. The earth mound known as the ‘Miller’s Knowe’ has been identified as an ‘ancient sepulchral tumuli’, a burial mound, in the New Statistical Account of Ayrshire.