In the 9th century the Chapel of the Virgin Mary was founded in Irvine. Each year on 15th August Mary’s Mass was held to celebrate the feast of the “Assumption of the Blessed Virgin”. The Earl of Eglinton had control over Marymass until 1747 when the Heritable Jurisdictions (Scotland) Act 1746 came into force, following the last Jacobite Rebellion. Then … Continue reading Marymass