It takes its name from the Great Condurrow Mine at Troon, Cornwall in the United Kingdom, which is regarded as the type locality.
Marr College RFC is a rugby union team based in Troon, Ayrshire, Scotland.
Amongst the many good players to have represented the club down the years, two homegrown players have gone on to play first class cricket, these are Anthony Penberthy and Malcolm Dunstan.
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Former Pakistan and ICL spinner Arshad Khan also represented the club in the late 1990s and early 2000s
Troon | William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon | Troon, Cornwall | Kilmarnock and Troon Railway |
In the film The Fast Lady, the unlikely hero Murdoch Troon, takes his first driving lesson in an Austin A40 Farina.
On 29 December 1886, the Wembdon was sailing from Huelva to Troon, when she lost her way in a severe snowstorm and grounded on the Cannon Rock.
In addition to the shipbuilding and engineering centres up river of Glasgow, Govan, Clydebank, Dumbarton and Renfrew the lower river developed major yards at Greenock, Port Glasgow and smaller ones at Irvine, Ardrossan, Troon and Campbeltown and boatyards including Hunters Quay, Port Bannatyne and Fairlie.
That summer also saw Hector appear at Wickerman Festival, Insider Festival, Go North, Eden, Doune The Rabbit Hole, Audio Soup, Live at Troon as well as headlining Oran Mor as part of Glasgow's West End Festival.
John was born at Dankeith, South Ayrshire, and he was a relation to the McCallums of Troon.
The Kilmarnock and Troon Railway was an early railway line in Ayrshire, Scotland.
In 1807 the Marquess of Titchfield (later the 4th Duke of Portland) commissioned William Jessop to build a railway line between Kilmarnock and Troon.
In international tournaments, he has had many fine results, including outright or shared first place at Naleczow 1980, Sarajevo 1981, Cienfuegos 1983, Troon 1984, Sverdlovsk 1984, Szirak 1986, Sarajevo 1986, Sevastopol 1986, Lugano Open 1988, Tel Aviv 1990 (and again in 1999), London MSO 1999 and Andorra 2002.
Triton as the yacht was originally named, was built at Troon on the Firth of Clyde, by the Ailsa Shipyard.
This would add local bus operation around Irvine, Stewarton and Troon, and would consolidate the Stagecoach Western operation, securing it as the dominant operator in north Ayrshire, a role Western Scottish never succeeded in filling.
For the 2006/07 season Troon will also take part in the BBL Cup alongside the professional franchise clubs of the British Basketball League and a select few clubs from the SBL and the English Basketball League.