Kilmacolm is a town as well as civil parish in the Inverclyde council location, and also the historic area of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It rests on the northern incline of the Gryffe Valley, 7 1/2 miles (12.1 kilometres) south-east of Greenock as well as around 15 miles (24 kilometres) west of the city of Glasgow. The village has a population of around 4,000 and belongs to a bigger civil parish which covers a big rural hinterland of 15,000 hectares (150 km2; 58 sq mi) consisting of within it the smaller sized negotiation of Quarrier's Village, originally developed as a 19th-century residential orphans' home. The area surrounding the village was resolved in ancient times and emerged as part of a feudal society with the parish divided between different estates for much of its background. The village itself continued to be small, offering solutions to neighboring farm communities and working as a religious center for the church. The name of the village stems from the Scottish Gaelic Cill MoCholuim, indicating the dedication of its church to St Columba. The parish church was pointed out in a papal bull of 1225 showing its subservience to Paisley Abbey, and also it rests on the website of an ancient religious community dating to the 5th or sixth centuries. Once again in the 13th century, Duchal Castle was constructed in the church and is notable for being besieged by King James IV of Scotland in 1489, adhering to the resident Lyle family members's assistance of an insurrection against him. Feuding in between the noble family members of Kilmacolm was typical in the center Ages, and also in the 16th as well as 17th centuries, the church again involved the interest of the Crown for providing support to outlawed spiritual Covenanters. The character of the village changed substantially in the Victorian age, with the arrival of the train in Kilmacolm in 1869. Much of Kilmacolm's modern-day buildings were constructed between this date and the outbreak of World war. The appearance of such transportation web links allowed the village to expand as an affluent dormitory village offering the neighboring urban centres of Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock. The economic situation of the village mirrored this population adjustment, relocating away from its typical dependence on agriculture to supplying tertiary sector solutions to residents and also visitors.