Drongan
Drongan is a former mining village in East Ayrshire, some 8 miles (13 km) east of Ayr and west of Cumnock.
Drongan is a former mining village in East Ayrshire, some 8 miles (13 km) east of Ayr and west of Cumnock. It had a population of 4686 in 2011.
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Worth seeing in and around Drongan
4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Trabboch Castle
Trabboch Castle is a ruined L-plan tower house in the old Barony of Trabboch, Parish of Stair, East Ayrshire, Scotland.
3.9 km · Tower house in East Ayrshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 02Belston Loch
Belston Loch, also recorded as Dromsmodda Loch is a small freshwater loch in the East Ayrshire Council Area, near Sinclairston, 2 miles south-east of Drongan, lying in a glacial Kettle Hole. Parish of Ochiltree, Scotland.
3.4 km · lake in East Ayrshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 03Loch Shield
Loch Shield, originally Loch of Scheel was a freshwater loch in the East Ayrshire Council Area, now drained, near Drongan, lying in a glacial Kettle Hole, Parish of Ochiltree, Scotland.
1.3 km · lake in East Ayrshire, Scotland, UK, drained in the 18th-century · Wikipedia - 04Lochend Loch
Lochend Loch, which once had nearly three acres in surface area is now only a small freshwater loch remnant. It lies in the South Ayrshire Council Area, lying on the hill above Joppa, between Gallowhill and Lochend Farm.
3.5 km · lake in Coylton, South Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Drongan
- Airports
- Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 10 km · Glasgow (GLA), 49 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 89 km
- Stations
- Drongan railway station, 500 m · Trabboch railway station, 3.5 km
- Glasgow → Drongan49 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £5–7
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Drongan89 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £11–14
- Belfast → Drongan132 km · quickest by road, 14h 12m · £70–95
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No local-transport research exists yet for Drongan
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Drongan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFerries to Ireland no longer sail from Ayrshire, you need to go to Cairnryan near Stranraer for the car ferries to Belfast and Larne.
- Get inFerries from Ardrossan sail to Brodick on the Isle of Arran.
- Get inYou can cross that island by road for the ferry from Lochranza to Claonaig, near Tarbert in Kintyre.
- Get inJust north of Ayrshire, frequent ferries sail from Wemyss Bay to Rothesay on the Isle of Bute.
- Get inYou can similarly cross Bute and take a ferry to the Cowal peninsula, then a further ferry onward to Tarbert.
From Wikivoyage: Ayrshire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-04.
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Next door to Drongan
Drongan is 49 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Coyltonvillage in South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK3.8 km
- Millmannochvillage in South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK1.3 km
- Trabbochhamlet in East Ayrshire, Scotland, UK3.8 km
- Cumnock and Doon ValleyScottish district in East Ayrshire, Scotland, UK3.4 km