Maybole
Maybole is a burgh of barony and also authorities burgh of South Ayrshire, Scotland. Pop. (2011) 4,760. It is located 9 miles (14 km) south of Ayr and also 50 miles (80 kilometres) southwest of Glasgow by the Glasgow and South Western Railway. Maybole has Middle Ages roots, receiving a charter from Donnchadh, Earl of Carrick in 1193. In 1516 it was made a burgh of regality, although for generations it remained under the suzerainty of the Kennedys, after that Earls of Cassillis and (later on) Marquesses of Ailsa, one of the most effective family members 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 home to 28 "lords and landowners with estates in Carrick and beyond." In former times, Maybole was the funding of the district of Carrick, Scotland, and also for long its characteristic function was the family estates of the barons of Carrick. Maybole Castle, a former seat of the Earls of Cassillis, dates to 1560 and also still continues to be, although aspects of the castle are viewed as "of issue". The general public buildings include the town-hall, the Ashgrove and also the Lumsden fresh-air fortnightly homes, as well as the Maybole mix poorhouse. Maybole is a brief distance from the birth place of Robert Burns, the Scots national poet. Burns's mommy was a Maybole citizen, Agnes Brown. In the nineteenth century, Maybole came to be a centre of boot and shoe manufacturing. Margaret McMurray (?? -1760), one of the last indigenous 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.