[1] Lylestone Farm stands on the minor road to Auchenmade and Drumbuie that branches off from the B778 and runs past the old school.

These dwellings were home to railway workers and quarrymen from the nearby extensive freestone and limestone quarries and coal pits.

[5] Thomson's map of 1832 shows Lysleton (sic) and at this date the course of the present day B778 did not exist and the road stopped at Monkreddan House.

The old flooded Monkredding Quarry at NS329452 is a Provisional Local Nature Conservation Site as designated by the Scottish Wildlife Trust in co-operation with North Ayrshire Council.

"In the lands of Monkridding there are old coal wastes, connected with the limestone series, from 2½ to 3 feet in thickness, which had been opened several hundred years ago and they extend over between 50 and 100 acres.

This coal-bed must have been of great value in those days of defective machinery from the peculiar position of the coal and lay of the land, as it was all wrought water-free and from the old waste there is now a constant run of fine water.

[13] The OS map shows that the quarry at High Monkredding had become a fish pond with a boat house and a contiguous plantation by 1909.

Monkredding House, North Ayrshire lies nearby(NS 3240 4534), a property originally held by the Tironensian monks of Kilwinning Abbey, was the 'Monk's Garden', the rest home for the brothers.

It served the hamlet of Auchentiber and the surrounding rural area as part of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway.