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Named after a Scottish town by the farmer James Coutts Crawford, Kilbirnie fills the middle section of the ridge that runs from Roseneath to the south coast. Kilbirnie remained part of Crawford’s extensive estate until the 1870s when it was sold for housing.
Meaning of place name
James Coutts Crawford named the suburb after Kilbirnie in Ayreshire, Scotland, and gave the streets Scottish names. Crawford owned the land together with the sites of Miramar, Melrose and the isthmus.
