DALMUIR-AND-DALMUIR-SHORE, villages, in the
parish of Old Kilpatrick, county of Dumbarton, the
one 2 miles (E. S. E.) and the other 2| miles (S. E. by S.)
from Old Kilpatrick; containing respectively 526 and
187 inhabitants. These places are in the vicinity of the
Forth and Clyde canal and the road from Glasgow to
Dumbarton, and on the south flows the river Clyde.
They each partake in the manufactures of the parish,
and there is a quay for domestic trafiic, of very ancient
date. Among the works are a paper-mill, a bleachfield,
and a soda-factory: the last, established by the grandfather
of the present Earl of Zetland, stands on the
margin of the river, its furnaces and chimneys contrasting
remarkably with the surrounding scenery, which is very
pleasing. The principal stream of the district, supplied
by two lakes, falls here into the Clyde.