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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
NEW KILPATRICK [parish] New or East Kilpatrick
New Kilpatrick
New Kilpatrick
New or East Kilpatrick
New or East Kilpatrick
East Kilpatrick
New Kilpatrick
New Kilpatrick
New Kilpatrick
Old Statistical Account
New Statistical Account
Fullarton's Gazetteer
Originies Parochial Scotiae
Chalmers Caledonia
Johnstone's County Map
Sheriffs Returns
Valuation Rolls
Parochial Board of Kilpatk. [Kilpatrick]
019 ; 023 ; 024 ; 028 ; 029 "The two parishes of New or Old Kilpatrick,occupy a large portion of if that district of Scotland formerly called Lennox or Levenach -the field of Leven. The Etymology of Kilpatrick is plainly the Gaelic Cil, a church or Religious house, prefixed to the name of the patron Saint of Ireland, to whom the Church of Kilpatrick was only dedicated.
The parish of New Kilpatrick is in the Counties of Dumbarton & Stirling, & as a separate parish is of comparatively modern date, having been disjoined from Old Kilpatrick in 1649. The disjunction is Quoad Omnia.
It is bounded on the north by the parishes of Strathblane & Killearn: on the west by Old Kilpatrick: on the South by Renfrew & Govan and on the East by the Barony of Glasgow, Cadder, & Baldernock.
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