Killermont, an estate, with a mansion, in New Kilpatrick parish, Dumbarton and Stirling shires. The mansion, on the right bank of the Kelvin, 1¾ mile N of Maryhill and 4 miles NNW of Glasgow, is a large and elegant edifice, built partly about 1805, partly at earlier periods, with extensive and very beautiful grounds. Its owner, the Rev. John Erskine Campbell-Colquhoun of Killermont and Garscadden (b. 1831; suc. 1872), holds 3127 acres in Dumbarton, Lanark, and Stirling shires, valued at £8439 per annum.—Ord. Sur., sh. 30, 1866.

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)