Back Old Kilpatrick CEB Old Kilpatrick English Old Kilpatrick Spanish Old Kilpatrick Basque اولد کیلپتریک Persian Old Kilpatrick French Cill Phàdraig Irish Old Kilpatrick Italian Old Kilpatrick Dutch Old Kilpatrick Serbo-Croatian
Auld Kilpatrick (Scots Gaelic: Cill Phàdraig, meinin "Patrick's kirk") is a veilage in Wast Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It ligs oan the north bank o the River Clyde juist til the north o the Forth an Clyde Canal, thrie mile frae Clydebank oan the road ti Dumbairton. Til the Wast is Bowlin, til the North is the Kilpatrick Hills.[1]
The veilage's Gaelic name cums frae a fowktale that Saunt Patrick wis born thar an Saunt Patrick's Wall is in the aurie. The "Auld" pairt o the name cums frae 1649, whan Kilpatrick parochine wis sindert in twa; New (Eister) Kilpatrick parochine kirk wis biggit in Bearsden an the kirk o Kilpatrick becam the "Auld" kirk.[2]
- ↑ "Old Kilpatrick". Scottish Places. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
- ↑ The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al (St Andrews University) Date accessed: 13 Sept 2011