Maybole
Maybole is a burgh of barony and also police burgh of South Ayrshire, Scotland. Pop. (2011) 4,760. It is situated 9 miles (14 km) south of Ayr as well as 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Glasgow by the Glasgow and also South Western Railway. Maybole has Middle Ages origins, obtaining 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 (later) Marquesses of Ailsa, one of the most powerful family members in Ayrshire. The Marquess of Ailsa lived at Cassillis House, just outside Maybole till 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 resources of the district of Carrick, Scotland, and for long its particular feature was the family mansions of the barons of Carrick. Maybole Castle, a former seat of the Earls of Cassillis, dates to 1560 and still stays, although elements of the castle are deemed "of issue". The general public structures include the town-hall, the Ashgrove and also the Lumsden fresh-air biweekly houses, as well as the Maybole combination poorhouse. Maybole is a short distance from the native home of Robert Burns, the Scots national poet. Burns's mother was a Maybole homeowner, Agnes Brown. In the nineteenth century, Maybole became a centre of boot as well as shoe manufacturing. Margaret McMurray (?? -1760), among the last native audio speakers of a Lowland dialect of Scottish Gaelic, is recorded to have lived at Cultezron (not to be confused with neighboring Culzean), a farm on the borders of Maybole.