About: Robert Burns and the Eglinton Estate     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : dbpedia.org associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FRobert_Burns_and_the_Eglinton_Estate

During the years 1781–1782, at the age of 23, Robert Burns (1759–1796) lived in Irvine, North Ayrshire for a period of around 9 months, whilst learning the craft of flax-dressing from Alexander Peacock, who may have been his mother's half-brother, working at the heckling shop in the Glasgow Vennel. Dr John Cumming of Milgarholm, a provost of Irvine, claimed that he had invited Burns to come to Irvine to learn flax dressing. During this time he made a number of acquaintances, befriended several locals and took regular walks into the Eglinton Woods via the old Irvine to Kilwinning toll road and the Drukken or Drucken (Drunken) Steps. Steps over the Red Burn and back via the site of Saint Brides or Bryde's Well at Stanecastle. Burns had several other connections with the Eglinton Estate and o

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Robert Burns and the Eglinton Estate (en)
rdfs:comment
  • During the years 1781–1782, at the age of 23, Robert Burns (1759–1796) lived in Irvine, North Ayrshire for a period of around 9 months, whilst learning the craft of flax-dressing from Alexander Peacock, who may have been his mother's half-brother, working at the heckling shop in the Glasgow Vennel. Dr John Cumming of Milgarholm, a provost of Irvine, claimed that he had invited Burns to come to Irvine to learn flax dressing. During this time he made a number of acquaintances, befriended several locals and took regular walks into the Eglinton Woods via the old Irvine to Kilwinning toll road and the Drukken or Drucken (Drunken) Steps. Steps over the Red Burn and back via the site of Saint Brides or Bryde's Well at Stanecastle. Burns had several other connections with the Eglinton Estate and o (en)
foaf:depiction
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Burns_1.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fergushill_Drive.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Burns's_Irvine_Lodgings.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Heckling_Shop_Irvine.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Aitken_map_of_fergushill.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Drukken_Cairn_Plaque.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mrsdunlopofdunlop.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Coilsfield_House,_Ayrshire,_1840.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Doctor_John_MacKenzie.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Drukken_Cairn_-_Saint_Bryde's_Well.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Drukken_Steps_Bridges.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gravel_Cottage_or_Morven_Lodge.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Higgins_House_ruins.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Higgins_ruins.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Old_Toll_road_passed_Higgins.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Old_Toll_road_to_Higgins_House.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Old_road_to_the_Drukken_steps.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Red_Burn_at_Drukken_Steps.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Burns_Eglinton_statue.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Snowdrops_at_Higgins.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Drucken_steps.jpg
dcterms:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
Link from a Wikipage to an external page
sameAs
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (378 GB total memory, 53 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software