Kilmacolm is a town and civil parish in the Inverclyde council location, and also the historical county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies on the north incline of the Gryffe Valley, 7 1/2 miles (12.1 km) south-east of Greenock and around 15 miles (24 km) west of the city of Glasgow. The village has a population of around 4,000 and becomes part of a broader civil parish which covers a huge rural hinterland of 15,000 hectares (150 km2; 58 sq mi) containing within it the smaller sized settlement of Quarrier's Village, originally established as a 19th-century household orphans' home. The area surrounding the town was resolved in prehistoric times and emerged as part of a feudal culture with the parish divided in between different estates for much of its background. The town itself continued to be little, giving services to neighboring ranch areas and also working as a religious hub for the church. The name of the village originates from the Scottish Gaelic Cill MoCholuim, indicating the commitment of its church to St Columba. The parish church was mentioned in a papal bull of 1225 revealing its subservience to Paisley Abbey, and it remains on the website of an ancient religious community dating to the 5th or sixth centuries. Once more in the 13th century, Duchal Castle was built in the church and also is noteworthy for being besieged by King James IV of Scotland in 1489, following the resident Lyle household's support of an insurrection against him. Feuding between the honorable family members of Kilmacolm was commonplace in the Middle Ages, as well as in the 16th and 17th centuries, the church once more involved the focus of the Crown for supplying support to banned spiritual Covenanters. The character of the village transformed dramatically in the Victorian age, with the arrival of the train in Kilmacolm in 1869. Much of Kilmacolm's contemporary buildings were constructed between this day and also the break out of World war. The introduction of such transport links allowed the town to increase as an affluent dorm village serving the neighboring urban centres of Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock. The economic situation of the village mirrored this population change, moving away from its conventional dependence on farming to providing tertiary sector solutions to residents as well as site visitors.