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ALLOWAY, quoad sacra parish, with church, 2f miles south of Ayr. It is intersected by the, river Doon ; and it com-prises, on the right side, an old parish of Alloway, which became annexed to Ayr ; on the left side, part of the parish of Maybole. Pop. of the Ayr part, 486 ; of the Maybole part, 421. The new church was erected in 1858. The old church, which served for the old civil parish, stands in the near vicinity of the new, is a small, plain, roofless ruin, and has much celebrity as the scene of the fiend revelry in Burns' Tarn o' Shanter. The ' Auld Brig o' Doon, ' figuring also in Tarn o' Shanter, a new bridge erected since Burns' time, a cyclo-style monument to Burns, erected in 1820, and a neat inn, called Burns', are in the same vicinity ; and Burns' cottage, where the poet was born, is about f mile to the north, and was purchased in September 1880 for 4000, to be converted into a Burns' museum.