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Ayrshire Around the World: (1) Ayrshire, Iowa, USA
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Ayrshire folk have gone all round the world, leaving their mark. In many far-flung corners of the globe you will often find place names that have an all-too-familiar ring to them. One of the oddest is undoubtedly the "city" of Ayrshire in the Mid-Western US state of Iowa, although "city" is perhaps the wrong word, as the population is only 142 people. At its peak in 1940 it was 391.