Maak's or Monk's Well

A possible 'Holy Well', it was once a public water supply for the villagers and residents of the old castle at Kilmaurs Place.

[1] The source is now capped with a large stone slab (55.637669 -4.528186) and sits set into what is now the Kilmaurs Glencairn Bowling Club's boundary hedge.

[3] The OS maps show that the Maak's ell was important enough to have direct prioritised pedestrian paths running to it from the north and west.

The laid had consulted the local priest who had advised "Restore the well to the people, let them come with their pitchers, and the waters will flow as yore.

[1] In 1849 the burgh bailies requested that the Earl of Eglinton should help repair the road and embankment that led to the Maak's Well, adding that local tradition suggested that the path had been originally built by a 'religious establishment'.