Historic Scotland places in North Ayrshire

A ring of fifteen red and grey standing slabs around a Bronze Age burial cairn of about 4,000 years ago on a hillside above Machrie Bay, Arran; free, open at all times, a short walk up a farm track.

An Iron Age stone-walled dun with hut circles and a Bronze Age cairn on a hillside above Arran's west coast near Blackwaterfoot; free and open at all times, a half-mile walk up a farm track.

The ruins of a Tironensian abbey of the late 1100s in Kilwinning town centre, its south transept standing almost to full height beside the parish church; free, open at all times, council car parks nearby.

Rare hall-house of about 1300 rebuilt as a tower house in the 1500s, on a grassy peninsula in Loch Ranza at the north tip of Arran; free, open April to September, seen from outside in winter, car park on Newton Road.

Six stone circles of about 2000 BC with cairns and hut circles across open moor on the west coast of Arran, Circle 2's red sandstone pillars rising 5.5 metres; free, open all year, a walk of over a mile from the A841 car park.

A Bronze Age ring cairn of standing boulders beside the farm track to Machrie Moor's stone circles on Arran's west coast; free and open at all times, about 650 m from the A841 car park.

A burial aisle of 1636 in Largs with a carved Renaissance tomb and a painted ceiling of 1638 that has no parallel in Scotland; free, open afternoons April to September, by arrangement in winter.

The boulder footings of an Iron Age dun on a grassy knoll at Corriecravie on Arran, with views to Kintyre and Ailsa Craig; free and open at all times, about 400 m across fields from the road.

A Neolithic chambered tomb with its burial chamber exposed, in a quiet spot above the shore near Kilmory on Arran's south coast; free and open at all times, a short woodland walk from the village.