Drongan

Drongan is a former mining village in East Ayrshire, some 8 miles east of Ayr and west of Cumnock. It had a population of 4686 in 2011.

Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Trabboch Castle and Belston Loch.

Trabboch Castle

Ruins

Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Trabboch Castle is a ruined L-plan tower house in the old Barony of Trabboch, Parish of Stair, East Ayrshire, Scotland. Trabboch Castle is situated 2½ miles north of Drongan.

Belston Loch, also recorded as Dromsmodda Loch is a small freshwater loch in the East Ayrshire Council Area, near Sinclairston, 2 miles south-east of Drongan, lying in a glacial Kettle Hole. Parish of Ochiltree, Scotland. Belston Loch is situated 2 miles southeast of Drongan.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Coylton and Stair.

Coylton

Village

Photo: Phil Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Coylton is a village and civil parish in South Ayrshire, Scotland. It is five miles east of Ayr and 2+1⁄2 miles west of Drongan, on the A70. Sundrum Castle Holiday Park is to the west of the village, in the grounds of Sundrum Castle, which partly dates to the 13th century. Coylton is situated 2½ miles west of Drongan.

Stair

Hamlet

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Stair is a parish in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It lies at the bottom of a glen beside the River Ayr at the north-west border of the 5,376 acre Parish of Stair where the River Ayr is joined by the Glenstang Burn. Stair is situated 3 miles north of Drongan.

Annbank

Village

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Annbank is a village in South Ayrshire, Scotland. It is around five miles east of Ayr. Originally a mining settlement, it once had a rail link to Ayr via the Auchincruive Waggonway. Annbank is situated 4 miles northwest of Drongan.

Drongan

Type: Village with 3,170 residents
Description: village in East Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
Category: locality
Location: East Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

55.43496° or 55° 26′ 6″ north

Longitude

-4.45818° or 4° 27′ 29″ west

Population

3,170

Elevation

348 feet (106 metres)

Open location code

9C7QCGMR+XP

OpenStreetMap ID

node 377060504

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

11592136

Wikidata ID

Q1013798

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Drongan” goes by many names.

Basque: “Drongan”
Croatian: “Drongan”
Dutch: “Drongan”
French: “Drongan”
Irish: “Drongan”
Polish: “Drongan”
Scottish Gaelic: “Drongan”
Spanish: “Drongan”
Swedish: “Drongan”
Welsh: “Drongan”

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