Alloway

Alloway is a village and suburb of Ayr on the Doon, in Scotland. It is best known as the birthplace of Robert Burns, and is also where he set Tam o'Shanter . The ruined Alloway church features in the poem--as the scene of the witches' dance--as does the local Brig o'Doon . There is a memorial to Burns in the village, and several museums.