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Encyclopedia Britannica



KILMAURS

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 797 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KHA-KRI
KILMAURS , a town in the Cunningham division of Ayrshire,
Scotland
 , on the Carmel, 211 m. S. by W. of Glasgow by the Glasgow &
South
 -Western railway. Pop. (1901), 1803. Once noted for its cutlery, the
chief
 
industries
  now are shoe and bonnet factories, and there are iron and coal mines in the neighbourhood. The parish church
dates
  from 1170, and was dedicated either to the Virgin or to a Scottish saint of the 9th century called Maure. It was enlarged in 1403 and in
great
  part rebuilt in 1888. Adjoining it is the burial-place of the earls of Glencairn, the leading personages in the
district
  during several centuries, some of whom bore the style of Lord Kilmaurs. Their family name was Cunningham, adopted probably from the manor which they acquired in the 12th century. The town was made a
burgh
  of barony in 1527 by the
earl
  of that date. Burns's patron, the thirteenth
earl
 , on whose death the poet wrote his touching " Lament," sold the Kilmaurs estate in 1786 to the marchioness of Titchfield.


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