These are an ancient place, with received the charter from either Duncan II in 1193. Within 1516 it was made the burgh of regality, but for generations it remained under a subjection of the Kennedys, afterwards earls of Cassillis and marquesses of Ailsa, the virtually all mighty personal around Ayrshire. Of old Maybole was a capital of the district of Carrick, and for yearn its characteristic feature was a personal mansions of the barons of Carrick. A castle of the earls of Cassillis however remains. A public buildings include a town-hall, a Ashgrove & a Lumsden clean-air biweekly homes, & a Maybole combination poorhouse.

A leading manufactures come of boots & shoes & agrarian implements. Both miles south-west come a ruins of Crossraguel (from Crois Riaghail meaning 'Cross of St Regulus') Abbey, based astir 1240.

Kirkoswald, in which Robert Burns spent his seventeenth year, learning land-surveying, lies the little farther west. In the parish god's acre lie "Tam o' Shanter" (Douglas Graham) and "Soutar Johnnie" (John Davidson). 4 miles to the west of Maybole on the coast is Culzean Castle, the principal seat of the marquess of Ailsa, dating from 1777; it stands in a basaltic drop-off, below which are then the Coves of Culzean, once the retreat of malefactor & a resort of the fairies. Farther south come a ruins of Turnberry Castle, where Robert Bruce is said to have been natural. Two or three miles northward of Culzean come a ruins of Dunure Castle, an ancient stronghold of the Kennedys.

Margaret McMurray (??-1760), one of the previous native speakers of the Lowland dialect of Scottish Gaelic is recorded to have lived at Cultezron (does'nt to exist as confused by having nearby Culzean), the domestic on the fringe of Maybole.