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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAYBOLE [parish] | Maybole Maybole Maybole Maybole |
Johnston's County Map Statistical Account County Voters' List Patterson's History of Ayrshire (1847) |
032 ; 033 ; 038 ; 039 ; 044 ; 045 | There are various suppositions respecting the derivation of this name. According to Chalmers in his Caledonia it is of Anglo-Saxon derivation the earliest notice of it being found in a charter of Henry III in Hearnes Liber Niger viz "in 1192, Duncan, son of Gilbert di Galiveia, gave to God and St Mary, of Maelros a certain piece of land in Carric, named Maybothel" - 'Bottle' a house or village 'May' the name of some individual or 'Maey' a kinsman or cousin". Others are of the opinion that the name is of Celtic derivation, from the fact of old people usually calling it Minniebole; and from it being in the old records and papers written Minnyboil or Maiboil: It would thus signify 'the heath ground upon the marsh or meadow'. Others in support of another Gaelic interpretation offer this:- Maigh (the gh being silent) a plain, and Buile a fold; Moni, small hills; and as the fold in old times consisted of wooden [flakes], removed from one spot to another to answer the grazing & manuring of the land, sometimes the fold or stall would be on the plain, occasioning the term Maighbuile [underlined], at other times upon the more elevated ground occasioning Monibuile [underlined]. The parish contains (according to the Statistical account) about thirty-four square miles; its greatest length being nine and its greatest breadth five miles, taken in the common way from the county map, and which is probably far from being accurate. By the returns [continued over] |
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