[2] Minishant today (datum 2019) has a primary school, church, a restaurant, War Memorial, and a post office and general store.

In the late 19th century it had a school, post office, smithy, joiner's shop, woollen factory and was served by Cassillis railway station.

[8] The old school stood about one mile (1.5 kilometres) away from the village so as to make it closer to the farms whose children also attended it, a common practice.

[9] Sir Peter was a Baptist and most of the villages were Presbyterians so the church was designated non-denominational or non-sectarian and open to appropriate visiting ministers.

An exact copy of the church was built by Sir Peter Coats in Algiers where he moved to improve his health.

[10] The war memorial Celtic cross was dedicated in 1920 and was unveiled by the factor of the nearby Monkwood Estate, Major James Murdoch.

[11] Standing next to the Minishant Bridge over the Culroy or Polnatibber Burn the waulk or wauk's waterwheel was powered via a mill weir, lade and sluice arrangement.

[13] A short tramway incline with a waggon on a rope, known as the Bogey Line, transported coal up to the mill.

Cassillis closed 6 December 1954 however the now single track line to Maybole, Girvan and Stranraer remains in regular use.

Once part of the lands of Little Maybole or Maybothelbeg granted by Duncan, 1st Earl of Carrick, to the monks of Melrose Abbey.

The 18th-century Georgian mansion house was built either by Gilbert of by his son John who had married into the Craufurd family of Ardmillan.

Originally a mid-19th century gamekeeper's cottage this building has been extended and contains a number of fittings from the demolished Fullarton House, including Corinthian carved pilasters.

In 1868 Sir Peter Coats, the thread manufacturer and philanthropist, purchased the estate and in 1881 built an extension and remodelled the 1856 mansion house that stands on the banks of the River Doon.

In 1883 a rustic cottage in the grounds housed statues of the principal characters in Robert Burns's classic poem 'Tam o'Shanter'.

[24] Robert Muir married Barbara Barclay of Perceton and subsequently the property passed to the Hutchison family.

[25] Standing beside the River Doon this 1720s Georgian mansion was once home to the author James Paterson (1805 - 1876) who wrote the definitive five volume History of the County of Ayr and Wigton.

[1] He created the Monkwood Botanic Garden and Nursery at his home and built up a collection of around 2000 rare and exotic plants.

[1] Mote Knowe or Monkwood Mains Dun (NS337139) is a circular stone walled fortification with facing stones near Stewart's Craig on the River Doon near Monkwood Mains standing on an isolated knoll on the west side of the River Doon.

[33] In the Long Glen (NS326161) close to Whiteleys Farm is a cave with an entrance level with the watercourse and local legend has it that William Wallace hid at this location after the "Barns of Ayr" incident in 1297.