Maybole is a burgh of barony as well as cops burgh of South Ayrshire, Scotland. Pop. (2011) 4,760. It is situated 9 miles (14 km) south of Ayr and also 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Glasgow by the Glasgow as well as South Western Railway. Maybole has Middle Ages roots, obtaining 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, after that Earls of Cassillis and (later on) Marquesses of Ailsa, the most powerful household in Ayrshire. The Marquess of Ailsa lived at Cassillis House, simply outside Maybole till 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 previous times, Maybole was the capital of the area of Carrick, Scotland, and also for long its particular attribute was the family members 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 considered as "of worry". The general public structures include the town-hall, the Ashgrove as well as the Lumsden fresh-air biweekly homes, and also the Maybole combination poorhouse. Maybole is a brief distance from the native home of Robert Burns, the Scots national poet. Burns's mommy was a Maybole homeowner, Agnes Brown. In the nineteenth century, Maybole became a centre of boot as well as footwear production. Margaret McMurray (?? -1760), one of the last native audio speakers of a Lowland language of Scottish Gaelic, is recorded to have actually lived at Cultezron (not to be confused with neighboring Culzean), a farm on the borders of Maybole.