Largs, a watering-place of Ayrshire, on the Firth of Clyde, 14 miles S. of Greenock, and 11 N. of Ardrossan by a railway opened in 1885. Here on 12th October 1263, in a war between Scotland and the Norse colonies of Man and the Isles, Alexander III. defeated Haco of Norway, who with 160 ships and 20,000 men had descended on the coast of Ayrshire. Pop. (1851) 2824; (1891) 3187. See Wemyss Bay and Largs (Paisley, 1879).
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