Barrhead, a town of Renfrewshire, 8½ miles SW. of Glasgow by rail. Founded about 1773, it has cotton-mills, and bleaching, dyeing, and print works. Pop. (1841) 3492; (1891) 8215.
Barrhead
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 757
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