Maybole is a burgh of barony and also authorities burgh of South Ayrshire, Scotland. Pop. (2011) 4,760. It is positioned 9 miles (14 km) south of Ayr as well as 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Glasgow by the Glasgow as well as South Western Railway. Maybole has Middle Ages roots, getting a charter from Donnchadh, Earl of Carrick in 1193. In 1516 it was made a burgh of regality, although for generations it stayed under the suzerainty of the Kennedys, afterwards Earls of Cassillis as well as (later) Marquesses of Ailsa, one of the most effective household in Ayrshire. The Marquess of Ailsa lived at Cassillis House, simply outside Maybole up until its sale in 2007. In the late seventeenth century, a census recorded Maybole was residence to 28 "lords and landowners with estates in Carrick and beyond." In former times, Maybole was the resources of the area of Carrick, Scotland, and also for long its particular attribute was the household mansions of the barons of Carrick. Maybole Castle, a former seat of the Earls of Cassillis, dates to 1560 and also still stays, although elements of the castle are deemed "of issue". The general public buildings include the town-hall, the Ashgrove and the Lumsden fresh-air fortnightly houses, and also the Maybole mix poorhouse. Maybole is a short range from the birthplace of Robert Burns, the Scots nationwide poet. Burns's mother was a Maybole resident, Agnes Brown. In the nineteenth century, Maybole became a centre of boot and also shoe production. Margaret McMurray (?? -1760), among the last indigenous audio speakers of a Lowland dialect of Scottish Gaelic, is recorded to have lived at Cultezron (not to be confused with nearby Culzean), a farm on the borders of Maybole.