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Publication Account
Date 2009
Event ID 1019795
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019795
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and probably long before, Kirkintilloch’s market cross stood in front of the old tolbooth, and the locality is still known as ‘The Cross’ (fig 29.7). The burgh’s markets and fairs were held at the market cross, and regulations were enacted to ensure fair trading there. In addition, a regular lint market was held in Eastside from at least the eighteenth century. In 1815 the cross was ‘wantonly and maliciously’ overturned by vandals. Presumably this was the same cross that had been standing for centuries; certainly contemporaries referred to it as the Old Cross Stone. The remnants of the cross were, ‘for safety’, placed in the bed of the Luggie, apparently near where the stream joins the Kelvin. No traces can now be found, but local reminiscences suggest the cross was ‘an octangular pillar abundantly provided with steps and stones’.
Information from ‘The Scottish Burgh Survey, Historic Kilsyth: Archaeology and Development’ (2009).
