Chapel or Chappell. A village in Neilston parish, Renfrewshire, one of the numerous seats of industry between Neilston village and Barrhead.
Charleston. See PAISLEY.
Clarkston. A village in Cathcart parish, Renfrewshire 1 mile NNW of Busby, and 5 1/2 miles S of Glasgow. It has a station on the Glasgow, Busby, and East Kilbride railway. Pop. (1891) 825.
Clippens-Square. See BALAKLAVA.
Cloch. A small headland in Inverkip parish at the southward bend of the Firth of Clyde, 1 3/4 mile E by S of Dunoon, 3 miles SSE of Strone Point and 3 3/8 SSW of Barons Point. It has a lighthouse, a circular tower rising 76 feet above the water's level built in 1797, and showing a fixed white light visible at a distance of 14 miles, and a fog signal, consisting; of two differently pitched steam whistles; and it commands a very brilliant view of the opposite shores of the Firth.
Clochoderick. A huge isolated rock on the SW border of Kilbarchan parish 2 1/4 miles SW of Kilbarchan town. It measures 22 feet in length, 17 in breadth, and 12 in height; consists of greenstone, the same in kind as that of neighbouring hills; and has been deemed `Druidical,' but appears to be nothing more than a fragment of a compact hill mass, gradually isolated by the slow disintegration and washing away of surrounding softer portions of trap rock.
Clydebank. A burgh in Old Kilpatrick parish, Dumbartonshire, and a quoad sacra parish, partly also in Renfrew parish, Renfrewshire. On the right bank of the Clyde, 2 miles NW of Renfrew, it was erected into a police burgh in 1886, having been, so recently as 1872, a purely rural or agricultural district. It includes Dalmuir, Kilbowie, and Yoker, with extensive shipbuilding yards, the works of the Singer Manufacturing Co. and of the Clyde Trust, chemical works, distilleries, a gaswork, a post office, with money order, savings bank, and telegraph departments, British Linen Co.'s branch bank. New burgh buildings, containing a public hall, were built in 1893. There are 2 Established, 2 Free, and 2 U.P. churches, a Union, an Episcopal, a Wesleyan, and a Baptist church, a R. C. chapel and school, and a public school. The last, with accommodation for 1692 children, had (1891) a day and evening average attendance of 924 and 63, and grants of £980 and £24, 16s. The quoad sacra parish, St. James, was constituted in 1875, and is in the presbytery of Dumbarton and synod of Glasgow and Ayr. Pop, of burgh (1891) 9998.
Cochrane. An ancient barony on the W side of Abbey parish. It belonged from the 14th century to the family of Cochrane, of whom Sir Wm. Cochrane of Cowdon was ennobled as Baron Cochrane of Dundonald in 1647, as Earl of Dundonald and Lord Cochrane of Paisley and Ochiltree in 1669. By the eighth Earl it was sold about 1760; and the greater part of it now belongs to Houston of Johnstone.
Commore Dam. A reservoir or artificial lake in Neilston parish 2 miles SSW of Neilston village. Lying 600 feet above sea-level, it is fed from Harelaw Dam, and sends off its superfluence to Levern Water; measures 1 1/2 by 1 furlong; and is 24 feet deep.
Corkindale Law. See NEILSTON.
Corsemill or Crossmill. A village in Abbey parish on the left bank of the Levern, I mile NNE of Barrhead.
Cowglen. A hamlet and a mansion in Eastwood parish, 2 miles W by S of Pollokshaws. Coal and limestone are worked in the vicinity.
Craigends. An estate, with an old mansion, in Kilbarchan parish on the right bank of the Gryfe, 3 miles NNW of Johnstone.
Craigheads. A village connected with Barrhead town, in Renfrewshire.
Crook or Creuch. A summit (1446 feet) on the western border of Kilmalcolm parish 3/4 mile from the Ayrshire border, and 5 miles S by W of Greenock.
Crookston. An estate, with a ruined castle, on the E border of Abbey parish. The estate belonged in the 12th century to Robert de Croc, a gentleman of Norman ancestry, and passing by marriage in the 13th to the illustrious family of Stewart, was then united to the estates of Darnley, Neilston, Inchinnan, and Tarbolton. It was held by Henry, Lord Darnley (1546-67), who became the husband of Queen Mary; and in 1572 was granted to his younger brother Charles Stewart, fifth Earl of Lennox. Afterwards it passed through many hands to the Duke of Montrose, and was purchased from the second Duke in 1757 by Sir John Maxwell of Pollok. The castle stands on the summit of a wooded slope, overhanging the left bank of Levern Water, 3 furlongs above its influx to the White Cart, and 3 1/4 miles ESE of Paisley. Once a massive edifice, with centre, two lofty towers, and battlemented wings, surrounded by a rampart and a moat, it now consists of only one shattered tower, 50 feet high. John Wilson, Tannahill, Motherwell, Burns, and many anonymous poets have celebrated Crookston in verse; and most persons, though on little better authority than loose tradition, believe that it, not Wemyss, was the scene of Lord Darnley's betrothal to Queen Mary in 1565; at any rate, here they spent the days immediately after their marriage. A stately yew, known as `the Crookston Tree,' stood a little to the E, which popularly regarded as having been a favourite haunt of the royal lovers, became eventually blasted and lifeless, less from natural decay than in consequence of being hacked and hewn by relic-hunters for pieces to be converted into snuff-boxes and small ornamental articles, till it was eventually rooted up by Sir John Maxwell in 1817. An interesting memento of the tree is to be seen in Pollok House, in the form of a complete model of the castle made from small square blocks of the yew wood, every stone in the ruin being represented with astonishing minuteness. Common tradition, too, asserts that Queen Mary from Crookston Castle viewed the battle of Langside,--a tradition adopted by Wilson in his poem of the Clyde, and by Sir Walter Scott, both in his novel of The Abbot and in his History of Scotland; but the castle is 3 1/2 miles W by N of the battlefield, is completely hid from it by intervening heights, and, moreover, was in the rear, not of the Queen's army, but of the enemy.--Ord. Sur. sh. 30 1866.
Crosslee. A village in Houston parish on the left bank of the Gryfe, 2 1/2 miles NW of Johnstone station. A cotton mill, built here in 1793, was burned down about 1858; and the villagers were afterwards mainly employed in the neighbouring oil-works of Clippens, now, however, closed. Pop. (1881) 406, (1891) 379.
Crossmyloof. a former village in the NW corner of Cathcart parish, 1 mile NE of Pollokshaws, but included in 1891 in the extended city of Glasgow, with a branch post and telegraph office. At it are a public school, an Established church (Shawlands), and a bakery. At a council of war here, according to a popular myth, Queen Mary, on the morning of the battle of Langside, laid a small crucifix on her hand, saying, `As surely as that cross lies on my loof, I will this day fight the Regent,'--hence the name Crossmyloof.
Cruikston. See CROOKSTON.