Maybole is a burgh of barony and also police burgh of South Ayrshire, Scotland. Pop. (2011) 4,760. It is situated 9 miles (14 kilometres) south of Ayr as well as 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Glasgow by the Glasgow and South Western Railway. Maybole has Middle Ages roots, 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, after that Earls of Cassillis and also (later on) Marquesses of Ailsa, the most effective household in Ayrshire. The Marquess of Ailsa lived at Cassillis House, just outside Maybole up 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 funding of the district of Carrick, Scotland, and also for long its particular function was the family members manors of the barons of Carrick. Maybole Castle, a previous seat of the Earls of Cassillis, dates to 1560 as well as still stays, although elements of the castle are deemed "of worry". The public buildings consist of the town-hall, the Ashgrove and also the Lumsden fresh-air biweekly residences, and the Maybole combination poorhouse. Maybole is a short range from the native home of Robert Burns, the Scots national poet. Burns's mother was a Maybole resident, 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 dialect of Scottish Gaelic, is recorded to have lived at Cultezron (not to be perplexed with nearby Culzean), a farm on the outskirts of Maybole.