Garnkirk

Garnkirk is a settlement in North Lanarkshire, located a mile (1.5 km) southwest of Muirhead.

[3] Several old documents show Garnkirk with various spellings including maps by Timothy Pont,[4] Charles Ross,[5] and William Roy.

For example James Dunlop being a wealthy landowner opposed Thomas Muir and the congregation at Cadder over who appointed their minister.

[10] "James Dunlop of Garnkirk" was one of the five wealthy supporters of Glasgow's first playhouse in the late 18th century ( a Puritanical spirit suppressing entertainment in the city).

[11] One gazetteer, Samuel Lewis, describes coal being hardly worth digging Auchinloch with some limestone quarrying with a works established at Garnkirk.

Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway
Garnkirk Fire Clay Works [ 2 ]
One of a series of paintings and engravings titled "The Opening of the Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway" by David Octavius Hill
Blaeu - Atlas of Scotland 1654 - GLOTTIANA PRÆFECTVRA INFERIOR - Lower Clydesdale showing Garnkirk as Gartick
Muirhead , Chryston and Moodiesburn from the air. Garnkirk was on the railway line at the bottom of the picture.