Ratagan Youth Hostel
Good facilities mean the hostel is popular with walkers and tourists alike. There are otters, badgers and pine martins in the area. Red deer are numerous, and on the mountains ravens, ptarmigan, sea and golden eagles and mountain hares can be found. The hostel is only 8 miles from the world famous Eilean Donan
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Kyle (or Coila, poetically) is a former comital district of Scotland which today forms part of East Ayrshire and South Ayrshire. It is said to be named after 'Old King Cole,' a king of the Britons, who was reputedly killed in battle in this area.
The area is bordered by the districts of Cunninghame and Clydesdale to the north and east respectively, by the county of Carrick to the south over the River Kyle and by the Firth of Clyde to the west.
