In the Museum under the monument are many interesting relics, among them the Bible presented to Mary Campbell (Highland Mary), and which she and Burns held, one standing on one side of the Faile, and the other on the other side, when they made their Vows of Marriage on Sunday, May 14, 1786. TOMBSTONE ERECTED IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM BURNS, THE POET'S FATHER, AND AGNES BROWN, HIS MOTHER. Douglas Graham's "Tam O'Shanter's"-farm lies fourteen miles from Ayr, on the Firth of Clyde. He often drank late in Ayr on market days. Fourteen miles from Ayr, on the Firth of Clyde, and about three miles from Kirkoswald, where Tam is buried. Where Tam O'Shanter and Souter Johnnie are buried. Oswald was a son of the last King of the Heptarchy in England. He was brought up by the King of Carrick. He became a soldier and defeated the English, when they invaded Carrick, where Kirkoswald now stands. He vowed the night before the battle that if the Lord would help him to win he would establish a shrine which was followed by a kirk known as the Kirk o' Oswald. |