Maybole
Maybole is a burgh of barony as well as cops burgh of South Ayrshire, Scotland. Pop. (2011) 4,760. It is located 9 miles (14 kilometres) south of Ayr and also 50 miles (80 kilometres) southwest of Glasgow by the Glasgow as well as 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 stayed under the suzerainty of the Kennedys, afterwards Earls of Cassillis as well as (later on) Marquesses of Ailsa, one of the most powerful household 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 house to 28 "lords and landowners with estates in Carrick and beyond." In previous times, Maybole was the funding of the area of Carrick, Scotland, and also for long its particular feature was the family manors of the barons of Carrick. Maybole Castle, a former seat of the Earls of Cassillis, dates to 1560 and also still continues to be, although facets of the castle are viewed as "of concern". The public buildings include the town-hall, the Ashgrove as well as the Lumsden fresh-air biweekly residences, and the Maybole combination poorhouse. Maybole is a brief distance from the birth place of Robert Burns, the Scots national poet. Burns's mom was a Maybole resident, Agnes Brown. In the 19th century, Maybole came to be a centre of boot and also 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 puzzled with nearby Culzean), a farm on the borders of Maybole.
