Curling stone used at the Olympics. The two different granite varieties making up the stone can be distinguished by grain size and color. Ailsa Craig is a small island in the Firth of Clyde, an inlet ...

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, situated 10 ...

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 million ...

SAPPORO, JAPAN - SEPTEMBER 14: A view of Red and yellow stones on ice during the last day of qualifier for the Curling Japan Qualifying Tournament at Dohgin Curling Stadium on September 14, 2013 in ...

A brand new tourist centre could be coming to Girvan — to help visitors understand the history, wildlife and the geology of the Ailsa Craig. Tourist information resource group, Go Girvan, has ...

THERE is no way we can buy Ailsa Craig. So says the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. The charity is custodian of the island’s seabird colony. But spokesman Dr Dave Beaumont said: “We are not ...

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 ...

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 Winter ...

The 220 acre island boasts a ruined castle, a small cottage, a lighthouse, a quarry and a gannet colony The asking price for an island in the Irish Sea has been dramatically reduced since it was first ...

Residents of the Ailsa Craig area frustrated with escalating chaos in their community are torn between punitive and collaborative solutions. About 100 people poured into the town's legion on Wednesday ...