AILSA CRAIG 



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bare notice of it are believed to be the first mention of tlie 

 Craig by name ; it is a cliarter granted by King Robert III. 

 in 1404, confirming possession to Crosraguel Abbey.* 





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AILSA CRAIG. 



1. The earliest reference to Ailsa Gannets is that by 



* See " Annals of the Andersonian Naturalists' Society," 1900, II., 

 p. 136. Mr. H. B. Watt informs me that this charter has been printed 

 by the Ayrshire and Galloway Archaeological Association in " Charters of 

 the Abbey of Crosraguel " (1886, Vol. I.), and that the words applying to 

 Ailsa are : " Item, insulam de Ilysay cum pertinenciis," no mention what 

 ever being made of Solan Geese. 



