We are approaching the apron of flat beach that leads up to the steep east side of the Craig. Above us looms Ailsa Craig Castle, a square keep with a vaulted basement, still bearing the crest of ...

Volcanic rock from Ailsa Craig, situated 10 miles from land, is being used yet again for curling this week at the Winter Olympics in Beijing. The island is nearly two miles in circumference and ...

Ten miles off the west coast of Scotland, the Firth of Clyde flows around a small island shaped like a sugar loaf called Ailsa Craig. In breadth, it’s shy of a mile but rises steeply to more than ...

It lost the family seat, Culzean Castle, to the National Trust in 1945, and in 2010 the current marquess decided to part with Ailsa Craig, with an initial price of US$4 million. That figure was ...

About 60 to 70 percent of the curling stones in use today are fashioned from Ailsa Craig granite, according to Mike Thompson, the secretary general for the World Curling Federation in Perth, Scotland.