This walk out over the moorlands from Priesthill Farm takes us to the place where the Covenanter, John Brown was fatally shot by Graham of Claverhouse in 1685.

Not a vistage of his house remains except traces of its dimension 40 yards south east of the monument. It was occupied until the late 1800's. Brown's memorial is one of several in the district to the 82 local martyrs who died for their faith. The monument was erected and the grave enclosed from money collected at a sermon preached here in 1825 by the Rev John Milwaine. The epitaph on the stone is in the form of an acrostic.

Apart from the meagre living he would have been able to eke from the land, Brown worked as a carrier, moving goods around on horseback. His occupation and piety led him to be known as the Christian Carrier.

The route out to the memorial is over fairly rugged moorland, the habitat of the grouse and other moorland birds. Along its route the Ponesk Burn, a tributary of the River Ayr, has its source.

Close by is an undeveloped footpath to the former village of Glenbuck, though open cast coal mining may restrict freedom of movement. This route passes Sclanon Hill and the sources of the River Ayr at Glenbuck Bog.