Killearn Community Futures

Killearn is a village and parish of approximately 2,500 souls nestled under the Campsie Fells in West Central Scotland. We live right on the Highland Line and boast the most southerly Highland Malt Distillery in Scotland at Dumgoyne. From 1889 to 1893 Excise Officer Tedder worked at the distillery and his son, the late Air Marshall Lord Tedder, was born in the Customs House (which is now a rose garden). His son became Professor of Chemistry at St. Andrews University. Both The West Highland Way and the John Muir Way pass through the parish but the standard routes bypass the village by about a kilometre. Access from the routes to the village is via Drumbeg Loan or Station Road. As our local song writer famously wrote we have "four churches, three tennis courts, two public houses and a Spar!". Sadly we have lost the Spar and one of our public houses, the Killearn Hotel, stands empty awaiting a new tenant. Our main link to the rest of the world is the car but there are bus services from Glasgow and Stirling. Timetables are available on the "Transport" page on the site. In connection with the centenary of the outbreak of World War 1, research is being carried out into the Killearn casualties of the conflict who are listed on our War Memorial.