Muirkirk Mural
A mural on the outside wall of a pub in Muirkirk in East Ayrshire
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The woman depicted is, as you can see, Isobel Tibbie Pagan, 1741 to 1821.
The quote reads “Ca' them where the heather grows”.
She was an illiterate poet whose best known work
Ca' the Ewes to the Knowes
was adapted by Robert Burns.
An old woman spinning wool while surrounded by sheep, reading a book (maybe a Bible?) with a glass of probably whisky in her left hand and a bottle lying on the ground next to her.
She was known for running a howff (a house used as a pub), for her wit and sarcasm and lived to the age of eighty, not bad for those times, so her lifestyle seems to have worked.
The red panel below left celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Bill Shankly, who was from Glenbuck a few miles to the east. That event was back in 2013.
The quote reads “Ca' them where the heather grows”.
She was an illiterate poet whose best known work
Ca' the Ewes to the Knowes
was adapted by Robert Burns.
An old woman spinning wool while surrounded by sheep, reading a book (maybe a Bible?) with a glass of probably whisky in her left hand and a bottle lying on the ground next to her.
She was known for running a howff (a house used as a pub), for her wit and sarcasm and lived to the age of eighty, not bad for those times, so her lifestyle seems to have worked.
The red panel below left celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Bill Shankly, who was from Glenbuck a few miles to the east. That event was back in 2013.
