The heart of the old village, with its warmth, local interest, and friendliness, remains unaltered.
Smuggler’s Routes
In early times, because of their rock—bound shores and jagged aspect, Auchenmalg Bay and Portyerrock served as common landing places for Galloway smugglers bearing cargoes of spirits, tobacco, silk, wine, and candles from foreign lands to lucrative markets in Ayr, Paisley, and Edinburgh
I Hae Min o’ Kirkcowan
Once a year people emptied and burned the chaff in their mattresses. In Kirkcowan this was done at the New Mill Bridge.