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KILMAURS

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 797 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KILMAURS , a See also:

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

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