Cardonald

Cardonald (; , ) is an outlying suburb of the Scottish city of Glasgow. Formerly a village in its own right, it lies to the southwest of the city and is bounded to the south by the White Cart Water. The area was part of Renfrewshire until 1926 when the villages of Cardonald, Crookston, Halfway and their surrounding farmland were annexed to Glasgow.

==Toponymy== This place-name was first recorded in 1413 as "Cardownalde" and means ("the fort of Donald"). Cair means 'a fort' or 'a fortified place', and Donald came from either the Gaelic male personal name Dòmhnall or its Cumbric equivalent Dyfnwal, both of which are usually anglicised as 'Donald' (three kings of Strathclyde were named Dyfnwal). The fortalice of Cardonald (known as the Place of Cardonald, Cardonald Castle, or Cardonald House) was first recorded in 1565, but the place-name suggests this later medieval structure was built on the site of an older fortification.