Maybole is a burgh of barony and also police burgh of South Ayrshire, Scotland. Pop. (2011) 4,760. It is positioned 9 miles (14 kilometres) south of Ayr and 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Glasgow by the Glasgow and South Western Railway. Maybole has Middle Ages origins, obtaining 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, afterwards Earls of Cassillis and also (later on) Marquesses of Ailsa, the most powerful family 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 capital of the district of Carrick, Scotland, and 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 remains, although facets of the castle are considered as "of concern". The public structures consist of the town-hall, the Ashgrove and also the Lumsden fresh-air fortnightly residences, and the Maybole mix poorhouse. Maybole is a brief range from the birth place of Robert Burns, the Scots national poet. Burns's mother was a Maybole local, Agnes Brown. In the nineteenth century, Maybole came to be a centre of boot as well as 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 puzzled with neighboring Culzean), a farm on the borders of Maybole.