List of Ayrshire place-names beginning with 'I'

Industrial Railway Centre

Dalmellington (DAL)
Classification: Other
Grid reference: NS442083
Certainty: 1
Altitude: 171m

Ironstone Level

Auchinleck (AUK)
Classification: Other
Grid reference: NS595215
Certainty: 1
Altitude: 148m
Elements: SSE ironstone + SSE level

Description:

A level is defined in A Glossary of Scotch Mining Terms (Barrowman 1886) as: 'A drift or roadway along the strike of the strata i.e., at right angles to the line of dip and rise' a drift in this context being a mine. This was part of the Lugar Ironworks when named on the OS 6 inch 1st edition.

Isle

Auchinleck (AUK)
Classification: Settlement
Grid reference: NS622243
Certainty: 1
Altitude: 191m
Elements: SSE isle

Description:

The position of this settlement suggests it was perhaps at one time an island on the Bellow Water. OSNB describes this as ‘Three cottages on the east Side of Bellow Water near the Junction of Gass Water and Boghead Lane cottage occupied by Laborers’

Isle

Dalmellington (DAL)
Classification: Relief
Grid reference: NX492996
Certainty: 1
Altitude: 250m
Elements: SSE isle