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Kilmaurs

Kilmaurs is a former weaving village, and though only a few fields separate it from Kilmarnock’s suburbs, it is still a small, self-contained community with many small cottages. At its centre is the old 17th century Tolbooth, still with the jougs installed which were placed round wrongdoers’ necks as a punishment.

St Maurs Glencairn Church dates from 1888 and is mainly notable for the Glencairn Aisle, the 16th century burial vault of the Earls of Glencairn which stands to the rear of the church. It has an ornate monument inside to the 7th earl and his family. It dates from around 1600, and carries an inscription that reads “nothing is surer than death, be therefore sober and watch in prayer”.

The village takes its name from St Maura, daughter of a Scottish chieftain on the island of Little Cumbrae in the Firth of Clyde. John Boyd Orr, first director of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation and Nobel prize-winner, was born in Kilmaurs in 1880.