Torranyard is a small village or hamlet in North Ayrshire, Parish of Kilwinning, Scotland.

'[3] A local legend is that in the days of the 'body snatchers' or 'resurrectionists'; before the Anatomy Act 1832, bodies obtained locally were hidden in the ruins of the nearby Auchenharvie Castle before being taken up to Glasgow at night to sell to the surgeons and medical students at the old university.

[4] Another version of the story states that the bodies were collected together from neighbouring parishes at Darnshaw, a remote house near Bloak Moss on the old Auchenharvie to Megswell toll road route.

William's wife was a tough sort, her comment being on seeing him so encumbered, was that the Forgisal's would need a small plantation of their own to keep them in crutches.

Opencast workings and 'works' are shown on old OS maps nearby, close to the Greenacres Equestrian Centre (2012).