The hamlet of Stair in Scotland nestles at the bottom of a glen beside the River Ayr at the north-west border of the 5,376 acre (22 km²) parish of Stair where the River Ayr is joined by Trabboch Burn in what is now known as East Ayrshire. Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. The River Ayr ( Uisge Àir in Gaelic in what was the old county of Ayrshire of Scotland, is approximately 65 kilometres in length East Ayrshire ( Siorrachd Inbhir Àir an Ear in Gaelic) is one of 32 Council areas of Scotland.
In the year 1450 William de Dalrymple acquired the lands of Stair-Montgomery and built Stair House. Stair House is a historic house in Ayrshire, Scotland. It was the birthplace of John Dalrymple 1st Earl of Stair Once part of the District of Kyle, a historic sub-region of Ayrshire, the parish of Stair was created in 1653 at the request of James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair who arranged for the severance of a part of Ochiltree to form a new parish. Kyle (or Coila, poetically is a former Comital district of Scotland which stretched across parts of modern day East Ayrshire and South Ayrshire (Siorrachd Inbhir Àir ʃir̴əxg̊ iɲiɾʲˈaːɾʲ is a Registration county, and former administrative county in south-west Scotland, James Dalrymple 1st Viscount of Stair (May 1619 - November 29, 1695) Scottish Lawyer and Statesman, was born at Ochiltree, spelt Uchletree in the Middle Ages, is a village in East Ayrshire, Scotland near Auchinleck and Cumnock.
Other places of interest in the parish of Stair are Stair brig built in 1745 and Stair Church first built in 1706 and replaced with the existing structure in 1864. Year 1745 ( MDCCXLV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Year 1706 ( MDCCVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Year 1864 ( MDCCCLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year