KNIGHTSWOOD, a village, in the parish of New-KiLPATRiCK,
county of Dumbarton, if mile (S. by E.)
from New Kilpatrick; containing 178 inhabitants. It
is situated in the southern part of the parish, a short
distance from the river Kelvin, which here flows on the
east. At Netlierton, in its neighbourhood, is a valuable
freestone-quarry, the stone of which is of a cream colour,
easily cut when fresh from the quarry, but hardening
considerably by exposure. At one period it was largely
exported to Ireland and the West Indies; and it is still
wrought in vast quantities, affording employment to between
sixty and seventy persons.