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Loans, South Ayrshire history
Robertloan House and Hillhouse were the seats of the local lairds. Fairs were held here in June and October of each year.
Cartographic evidence
In 1747 Loans is marked as such with four enclosed areas of land and dwellings with Scallachmill nearby on a road from Fullarton to Irvine . By 1775 Loans is shown as a cluster of buildings on the Irvine to Ayr road with a road now also running to Dundonald . By 1897 the school and smithy are shown with a nursery with greenhouses established near the crossroads .
Robertloan
Robertland was originally a dwelling in the medieval clachan of Loans . Robertloan House was the home of William Dickie, last of the lairds who sold the estate to the Duke of Portland in 1861 . Later associated with the Guthrie family, the headquarters of the Kilmarnock Dairy Institute in 1906 .
Leprosy
Robert the Bruce is thought to have suffered from leprosy, psoriasis or some other skin ailment . He is reputed to have drunk from a brook at Prestwick’s “Bruce’s Well” The apparent healing effects of the waters caused him to establish a lazar house for lepers . The king endowed the establishment with the income from the lands of Loans .
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