Cardonald
Proper noun
Meaning
Cardonald
A suburb in Glasgow council area, Scotland, south-west of the city centre (OS grid ref NS5364).
Examples
A corn mill existed in Cardonald from around 1789 until it was demolished in 1958.
Education The first school in the vicinity of Cardonald was established at Halfway in 1790, by a local blacksmith who taught the rudiments of reading, writing and arithmetic.
Cardonald School remained the only school in the area until the 1930s when Lourdes Primary School and Angus Oval Primary School were built.
Cardonald School transferred to the new building (built on the site of the former Angus Oval Primary School) in 1965.
Hillington Park Parish Church ( Church of Scotland ) was originally called “Cardonald United Free Church”, with the current church hall on Berryknowes Road being built as a parish church of the United Free Church of Scotland in 1908.
It was demolished and replaced by a farmhouse - Cardonald Place Farm - in 1848.