Maybole is a burgh of barony and also police burgh of South Ayrshire, Scotland. Pop. (2011) 4,760. It is located 9 miles (14 km) south of Ayr and 50 miles (80 kilometres) southwest of Glasgow by the Glasgow and 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 stayed under the suzerainty of the Kennedys, later on Earls of Cassillis and (later) Marquesses of Ailsa, the most effective family members in Ayrshire. The Marquess of Ailsa lived at Cassillis House, simply 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 former times, Maybole was the capital of the district of Carrick, Scotland, as well as for long its particular function was the family estates of the barons of Carrick. Maybole Castle, a previous seat of the Earls of Cassillis, dates to 1560 and still remains, although facets of the castle are deemed "of issue". The general public buildings include the town-hall, the Ashgrove and the Lumsden fresh-air fortnightly residences, and also the Maybole combination poorhouse. Maybole is a short range from the birthplace of Robert Burns, the Scots national poet. Burns's mom was a Maybole local, Agnes Brown. In the 19th century, Maybole came to be a centre of boot and also footwear manufacturing. Margaret McMurray (?? -1760), one of the last indigenous speakers of a Lowland dialect of Scottish Gaelic, is recorded to have actually lived at Cultezron (not to be confused with nearby Culzean), a farm on the borders of Maybole.