From the book Kirkintilloch town and parish...

 The ancient ruin or belfry which now stands at the Old

Aisle cemetery, is evidently built of the stones from the

church of St. Ninian, erected by the Roman Catholics about

1 140.

Some persons are of opinion that the belfry was built as a

guard-house to watch against resurrectionists in the early

part of the present century, but after a good deal ot

investigation we have come to the conclusion that it was

built as it now stands about the beginning of last century,

of materials got from the old church, and its purpose was to

serve both as an entrance to the old burying-ground and a

watch tower against resurrectionists, who existed at that

time as well as since.

In the beginning of the thirteenth century William

"Comying," Earl of Buchan, who then held the manor,

granted the church with an oxgate of land— or as much land

as an ox could plough in the year— to the monks of

Cambuskenneth, who held it till the Reformation, when it

was worth ;£So a-year to them.

"Grant by William Comying, Earl of Buchan, of the church

of Kirkintilloch (Lenzie), with an oxgate of land adjoining

the churchyard thereof, to the Abbey of Cambuskenneth.