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Trabboch
Hamlet in East Ayrshire, Scotland

Trabboch

Trabboch is a hamlet in East Ayrshire, Scotland.

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Built as a miners village in the 1880s, it was owned and leased by Wm. Baird & Co., Ltd. and at one time had 94 dwellings. The miners rows stood, until demolition in 1969, on the Stair and Littlemill road, about two miles south of Stair, in that parish. The name is locally pronounced 'Traaboch'.

How locals move

Getting around Trabboch the local way

  • 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.
  • Get inThere's also a ferry from Largs to the Isle of Great Cumbrae, but there's no other transport from that island so you have to come back the same way.
  • Go nextThe ferries to Arran create a short-cut to Tarbert on the Kintyre peninsula.

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