In the early 1800s, the remains of a village of underground dwellings (souterrains or weems) from around 2000 years earlier was uncovered by the local landowner preparing the ground for use as a quarry, but its significance was not recognised and the evidence was destroyed.

In 2018, there was a large-scale incident at the park, during which teenagers celebrating after receiving their exam results were attacked, and three people were hospitalised.

[5] Overlee Park contains four football pitches,[6] a large playground, a woodland area[7] and Overlee Family Centre (a nursery school, plus a separate provision for community sports – changing rooms etc.

), completed in 2021[8] – it replaced a sports pavilion at the site, which had fallen into disrepair in the 2010s and been occupied by bats, which were re-homed.

[9] Overlee is the home venue of local amateur football team Busby AFC, founded in 1980;[10] its youth section was international player Aiden McGeady's first club in the 1990s.