The main feature of the area, which falls into the Greater Pollok ward of Glasgow City Council and directly borders the East Renfrewshire council region,[1] is an estate of around 639 private houses built in the late 1970s by Barratt Developments, prior to which the area was open farmland.

The northern parts of the suburban town of Newton Mearns are a short distance to the south, as is Patterton railway station.

The last and largest phase built was Invergarry (named after a location in Glen Garry near Loch Oich), this time off Stewarton Road B769 Deaconsbank has for many years had an active residents association,[3] as required by the Title Deeds.

The name Deaconsbank is taken from the former nearby Deacons Bank Farm beside the Auldhouse Burn which flows through what is now the modern day Rouken Glen park.

[7][8] Deaconsbank also is the name of the golf course to the east of Stewarton Road adjacent to Invergarry and Thistlebank adjoining Rouken Glen Park (part of a David Lloyd Leisure club),[9] at the southern extremity of which (close to the Neilston branch railway line) is a 16th century circular dovecote.