Maybole is a burgh of barony and also authorities burgh of South Ayrshire, Scotland. Pop. (2011) 4,760. It is positioned 9 miles (14 km) south of Ayr and 50 miles (80 kilometres) southwest of Glasgow by the Glasgow as well as South Western Railway. Maybole has Middle Ages origins, getting 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, afterwards Earls of Cassillis as well as (later on) Marquesses of Ailsa, the most effective family members in Ayrshire. The Marquess of Ailsa lived at Cassillis House, simply outside Maybole up 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 funding of the area of Carrick, Scotland, and for long its characteristic feature was the household manors of the barons of Carrick. Maybole Castle, a former seat of the Earls of Cassillis, dates to 1560 and also still remains, although aspects of the castle are viewed as "of issue". The general public buildings include the town-hall, the Ashgrove and the Lumsden fresh-air biweekly residences, and also the Maybole combination poorhouse. Maybole is a short distance from the native home of Robert Burns, the Scots nationwide poet. Burns's mommy was a Maybole citizen, Agnes Brown. In the 19th century, Maybole came to be a centre of boot and footwear production. Margaret McMurray (?? -1760), among the last indigenous audio speakers of a Lowland dialect of Scottish Gaelic, is recorded to have lived at Cultezron (not to be confused with close-by Culzean), a farm on the borders of Maybole.