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, after the lands of that name, which are on the north side of the Monkland Canal, east of Saint Rollox.

(Hillhead), named for John Gibson, the superior. It had previously been called King Street.

(off Gallowgate Street) is named for James Gibson, a joiner, who feued the ground and formed the street.

, whereon sits the College. The first part of the name is purely Celtic, the latter English, and means the servant of Mary's (Saint Mary) hill.

is the rather foreign-sounding title of the small estate which has been acquired for the isolation of habitual inebriates. Timothy Pont, at page 61 of his "Cunningham," mentions, in relation to it, that a small section of the Barony of Bonshaw was acquired by a Captain John Cheape of the army, who resided on it during the last 20 years of his life. This obscure little farm had been previously known by the name of Muirhead; but the new owner changed the name to Girgenti, in compliment to the town of that name in the island of Sicily, to which place in his former peregrinations he mayhap had found cause to form an attachment. He resided here from 1829 till his death, which occurred in the spring of 1850. The property consisted of about 50 Scotch acres. He built a new mansion-house and expended about £6000 on a property the original cost of which was £1350.

, opened 1793, is formed on the site of Henry Glassford of Dougalston's garden. The Shawfield Mansion was its southern boundary, the eastern wing of which is still there, though considerably altered; and the writer remembers seeing, previous to the last alteration, the hooks in the wall whereon had hung the old garden gate. Since the foregoing was written, the remaining remnant of the old mansion has been swept away, the site having been acquired for a bank.

, as its name denotes, was formed on church lands.