SORNHILL, a village, in the parish of Riccarton,
district of Kyle, county of Ayr, 6 miles (E. S. E.) from
Kilmarnock; containing 95 inhabitants. This village is
situated near the eastern extremity of the parish, and
till within the last few years was supposed to form part
of the adjacent parish of Galston, with which its population
was invariably returned. It is small, and irregularly
built, consisting chiefly of a few cottages inhabited
by persons employed in the neighbouring collieries, and,
in the making of bricks and tiles, for which some extensive
works have been established in the immediate
vicinity.