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 .