Maybole is a burgh of barony and also authorities burgh of South Ayrshire, Scotland. Pop. (2011) 4,760. It is located 9 miles (14 kilometres) south of Ayr and also 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Glasgow by the Glasgow and also 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 also (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 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 resources of the area of Carrick, Scotland, and also for long its characteristic feature was the household manors of the barons of Carrick. Maybole Castle, a previous seat of the Earls of Cassillis, dates to 1560 as well as still remains, although facets of the castle are viewed as "of problem". The general public buildings consist of the town-hall, the Ashgrove and also the Lumsden fresh-air fortnightly residences, and also the Maybole mix poorhouse. Maybole is a brief range from the birth place of Robert Burns, the Scots nationwide poet. Burns's mother was a Maybole citizen, Agnes Brown. In the nineteenth century, Maybole became a centre of boot and shoe production. Margaret McMurray (?? -1760), among the last indigenous 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.
