View of the interior of Souter Johnnie's Cottage, Kirkoswald

Souter Johnnie's Cottage

This is a view of the interior of Souter Johnnie's Cottage, Kirkoswald, Ayrshire. Souter Johnnie is one of the characters that appear in Robert Burns' poem "Tam O'Shanter". He was based on a local Kirkoswald man, John Davidson, who was a cobbler. "Souter" is an old Scots word for Cobbler.

His cottage was built in 1785 and is situated on Main Street, Kirkoswald. He lived and worked there until his death in 1806. His descendants owned the cottage until 1920 when it was handed over to a local committee, formed by the parish minister and Burns scholar, the Reverend James Muir. It was taken over by the National Trust of Scotland in 1932 and was furnished in the style of Burns' time. It had a room set aside as a shoemaker's workplace, and has many family and local relics on display.

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