Glenbuck village

Glenbuck is a remote former mining village in Muirkirk parish located at the North-Eastern edge of Ayrshire, close to the border of Lanarkshire. It had an ironworks and several small coal mines in the vicinity in the nineteenth century. There were a number of ‘miners rows’ in the village to house inhabitants, with the largest, Grasshill Row consisting of a single row of 33 two apartment dwellings. Its last local coal mine which employed around 150 of Glenbuck’s residents of a total workforce of around 200, closed in 1933. Glenbuck school closed in 1951, the Co-op shop in 1953 and the village was totally depopulated by 1954, with the majority of the population moved to a council estate in Muirkirk.