Ailsa Craig is a wee North Atlantic isle off Scotland that looks like a big curling stone. If you don’t know what those are, you probably haven’t been watching the sport of curling at the ...

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 ...

An uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland is the source of all the granite that has been used to craft Olympic curling stones for nearly a century. Volcanic rock from Ailsa Craig ...

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 ... feet into the sky off Scotland's west coast in ...

Ailsa Craig also boasts Scotland's third largest gannet colony and has also seen visits from a host of wildlife including puffins, guillemots, kittiwakes, razorbills, herring gulls and black-backed ...

When Ailsa Craig's ethereal shape materialises out of the mist, soaring to a height of nearly 340m (over 1100ft) above the sea, one can understand why it was named ''fairy rock'' (aillse creag) by ...

He told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: "The history books tell us that curling stones have been made from Ailsa Craig material for probably at least 200 years now. "There are two ...

For sale: one Scottish island. Sitting tenants: several seal families, 40,000 gannets and thousands more kittiwakes, puffins, razorbills, herring gulls and guillemots. And the price? £2.5-2.75 ...

Today, Ailsa Craig is a bird sanctuary, leased by the RSPB until 2050. It has the third largest gannet colony in Scotland, while other avian residents include puffins, guillemots and kittiwakes.

Ailsa Craig is a familiar sight to anyone who has ... and regularly cycles and camps wild on her own across some of Scotland's most beautiful locations, revealed that for once it wasn't actually ...

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.