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Kilmacolm is a village and also civil parish in the Inverclyde council area, and the historical county of Renfrewshire in the west main Lowlands of Scotland. It lies on the northern slope of the Gryffe Valley, 7 1/2 miles (12.1 kilometres) south-east of Greenock and around 15 miles (24 kilometres) west of the city of Glasgow. The village has a population of around 4,000 and becomes part of a larger civil parish which covers a large country hinterland of 15,000 hectares (150 km2; 58 sq mi) containing within it the smaller settlement of Quarrier’s Village, initially developed as a 19th-century residential orphans’ home. The location bordering the village was settled in ancient times as well as became part of a feudal society with the church divided in between separate estates for much of its background. The village itself remained tiny, providing solutions to close-by ranch areas and acting as a religious center for the church. The name of the village derives from the Scottish Gaelic Cill MoCholuim, showing the devotion of its church to St Columba. The parish church was discussed in a papal bull of 1225 revealing its subservience to Paisley Abbey, and also it rests on the site of an old religious community dating to the 5th or 6th centuries. Again in the 13th century, Duchal Castle was created in the parish and is notable for being besieged by King James IV of Scotland in 1489, following the resident Lyle family’s support of an insurrection against him. Feuding between the noble families of Kilmacolm was commonplace between Ages, and also in the 16th and also 17th centuries, the church again pertained to the focus of the Crown for giving support to outlawed spiritual Covenanters. The character of the village changed considerably in the Victorian age, with the arrival of the railway in Kilmacolm in 1869. A lot of Kilmacolm’s contemporary buildings were created between this day and the outbreak of World War I. The introduction of such transport web links enabled the village to increase as an upscale dorm room town serving the nearby city centres of Glasgow, Paisley and also Greenock. The economy of the town showed this population modification, relocating far from its typical dependence on agriculture to giving tertiary field services to locals as well as site visitors.