Maybole is a burgh of barony and authorities burgh of South Ayrshire, Scotland. Pop. (2011) 4,760. It is situated 9 miles (14 kilometres) south of Ayr as well as 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Glasgow by the Glasgow and South Western Railway. Maybole has Middle Ages origins, receiving a charter from Donnchadh, Earl of Carrick in 1193. In 1516 it was made a burgh of regality, although for generations it continued to be under the suzerainty of the Kennedys, later on Earls of Cassillis and (later) Marquesses of Ailsa, the most powerful 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 house to 28 "lords and landowners with estates in Carrick and beyond." In former times, Maybole was the funding of the district of Carrick, Scotland, as well as for long its characteristic function was the family members mansions of the barons of Carrick. Maybole Castle, a previous seat of the Earls of Cassillis, dates to 1560 and also still continues to be, although facets of the castle are deemed "of worry". The public buildings consist of the town-hall, the Ashgrove as well as the Lumsden fresh-air biweekly homes, and the Maybole combination poorhouse. Maybole is a short range from the birth place of Robert Burns, the Scots national poet. Burns's mom was a Maybole local, Agnes Brown. In the nineteenth century, Maybole came to be a centre of boot and also shoe production. Margaret McMurray (?? -1760), among the last native audio speakers of a Lowland language of Scottish Gaelic, is recorded to have lived at Cultezron (not to be confused with close-by Culzean), a farm on the borders of Maybole.