Trabboch

[3] The first part of the name is the element treβ-, denoting a habitation and the land associated with it (Welsh tref "a town", traditionally "a farm").

King Robert the Bruce gave the castle to the Boyds of Kilmarnock for services rendered at the Battle of Bannockburn.

[8] In the 17th century Chalmers of Gadgirth and Reid of Barskimming held parts of the Barony of Trabboch.

The station was originally part of the Ayr and Cumnock Branch on the Glasgow and South Western Railway.

Trabboch Loch[10] is nearby, formed from the flooded mineworkings of Drumdow Colliery in the late 19th century.

[11] It was expanded in the 1890s with an attractive wooden porch added and a new wing built o the east making it cross shaped.

An SS Trabboch was sunk in 1914 by the German Light Cruiser Emden in the Indian Ocean.