Clans of Kyle

Families seated in Kyle

• Clan BurnsBy the burn, the small-stream surname the poet made into Scotland's own.
• Clan MuirDweller by the moor, the Mures of Rowallan.

Champions made here

Famous bearers whose lives or work root in Kyle.

• John WalkerThe fourteen-year-old Ayrshire orphan whose blended whisky, sold from the back of a Kilmarnock grocer's shop, became the most recognised drinks brand in the world.

Stories told here

Legends set in Kyle, from any family that carries them.

• Burns and the Kilmarnock edition1786
  On the Clan Burns page