Kilmacolm is a town as well as civil parish in the Inverclyde council location, and also the historical county of Renfrewshire in the west main Lowlands of Scotland. It lies on the northern slope of the Gryffe Valley, 7 1/2 miles (12.1 kilometres) south-east of Greenock and around 15 miles (24 kilometres) west of the city of Glasgow. The village has a population of around 4,000 as well as becomes part of a larger civil parish which covers a huge rural hinterland of 15,000 hectares (150 km2; 58 sq mi) including within it the smaller negotiation of Quarrier's Village, originally developed as a 19th-century property orphans' residence. The location surrounding the village was worked out in ancient times as well as emerged as part of a feudal culture with the parish divided in between separate estates for much of its history. The town itself stayed little, offering services to nearby ranch neighborhoods and also acting as a spiritual hub for the church. The name of the town stems from the Scottish Gaelic Cill MoCholuim, showing the devotion of its church to St Columba. The parish church was discussed in a papal bull of 1225 showing its subservience to Paisley Abbey, and also it remains on the site of an ancient religious community dating to the 5th or 6th centuries. Once again in the 13th century, Duchal Castle was constructed in the church and also is significant for being besieged by King James IV of Scotland in 1489, following the resident Lyle household's assistance of an insurrection against him. Feuding between the worthy households of Kilmacolm was prevalent between Ages, as well as in the 16th and also 17th centuries, the parish once more concerned the focus of the Crown for supplying support to outlawed spiritual Covenanters. The personality of the town changed significantly in the Victorian era, with the arrival of the railway in Kilmacolm in 1869. Most of Kilmacolm's modern structures were built in between this day as well as the break out of World war. The introduction of such transportation web links made it possible for the town to expand as a wealthy dorm room town serving the close-by urban centres of Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock. The economic situation of the town reflected this population modification, relocating far from its traditional dependence on farming to providing tertiary market solutions to citizens as well as visitors.