Administrative Boundary of North Ayrshire

About North Ayrshire

North Ayrshire is a council area in south-west Scotland, on the Firth of Clyde. Covering approximately 887 square kilometres of Ayrshire mainland together with the islands of Arran, Great Cumbrae, and Little Cumbrae, North Ayrshire had a population of approximately 135,000 at the 2022 Census. The Isle of Arran — "Scotland in Miniature" Arran, the largest island in the Firth of Clyde, is nicknamed "Scotland in Miniature" because its Highland Boundary Fault passes directly through the island, giving its northern half rugged Highland-style mountains — including Goat Fell, at 874 metres the island's highest peak — while its southern half has gentler, Lowland-like farmland. Brodick Castle, seat of the Dukes of Hamilton for centuries and now cared for by the National Trust for Scotland, overlooks Brodick Bay beneath Goat Fell. At Lochranza on Arran's north coast, the geologist James Hutton found in 1787 the physical evidence — an angular unconformity of rock layers — that helped establish the principle of deep geological time, a discovery now commemorated as "Hutton's Unconformity" and considered a founding moment of modern geology. Largs and the Cumbraes Largs, on the mainland coast, was the site of the Battle of Largs in 1263, a battle between Norwegian and Scottish forces that led to the eventual transfer of the Hebrides and the Isle of Man from Norwegian to Scottish control under the Treaty of Perth (1266); the Viking-themed Vikingar! visitor attraction commemorates this history. Great Cumbrae, reached by a short ferry crossing from Largs, is centred on the small town of Millport, a popular Victorian-era holiday resort known for its miniature cathedral (the Cathedral of The Isles, one of the smallest cathedrals in Europe) and its circular island road, popular with cyclists. GIS and Boundary Data The administrative boundary of North Ayrshire Council is available for free download in GeoJSON and KML formats, sourced from the OS Open Geography portal (Crown copyright 2024). Compatible with QGIS, ArcGIS, Mapbox, and Google Earth, the dataset supports island and coastal planning, geological heritage mapping, and demographic analysis across the North Ayrshire council area.

📍 Administrative boundary of North Ayrshire county