The Kennedys’ Rock: Ailsa Craig, the Granite Every Curler Knows, and the Kennedy Tartan
Ten miles off the Ayrshire coast, where the Firth of Clyde opens towards Ireland, a single dome of rock rises more than a thousand feet out of the sea. It is known as Paddy’s Milestone, because it stands roughly halfway between Belfast and Glasgow. Birdwatchers know it for its gannets. And curlers, from Scotland to…