Maybole
Maybole is a burgh of barony and also police burgh of South Ayrshire, Scotland. Pop. (2011) 4,760. It is located 9 miles (14 kilometres) south of Ayr as well as 50 miles (80 kilometres) southwest of Glasgow by the Glasgow as well as South Western Railway. Maybole has Middle Ages origins, getting 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, afterwards Earls of Cassillis and also (later on) Marquesses of Ailsa, the most effective family in Ayrshire. The Marquess of Ailsa lived at Cassillis House, just outside Maybole 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 previous times, Maybole was the capital of the district of Carrick, Scotland, as well as for long its particular attribute was the household estates 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 concern". The public buildings consist of the town-hall, the Ashgrove and also the Lumsden fresh-air biweekly houses, and the Maybole combination poorhouse. Maybole is a short 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 also shoe manufacturing. Margaret McMurray (?? -1760), one of the last native audio speakers of a Lowland language of Scottish Gaelic, is recorded to have lived at Cultezron (not to be puzzled with nearby Culzean), a farm on the borders of Maybole.
