Blackhall, an estate in Abbey parish, Renfrewshire, adjacent to the SE side of Paisley. It gives appellation to Sir Michael Rt. Shaw-Stewart, Bart of Ardgowan House, and was conferred on his ancestor, Sir John Stewart, by King Robert NI. The mansion on it, about 1 mile SE of the centre of Paisley, is a plain, strong, ancient pile, which after 1710 became a farmhouse, and is now deserted, roofless, and of very dismal appearance- Lime works are on the estate. Blackhall, a mansion on the N border of Strachan parish, and an estate partly also in Banchory-Ternan parish, Kincardineshire.

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