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This gated enclosure is located within the churchyard, at the north-eastern corner of the former church building. For context, see NS3477 : Cardross Old Parish Church, which shows the same enclosure, from outside, at the rear of the church.

The text of all the inscriptions to be found here would run to too great a length, but many of them are given on pages 59-61 of Donald MacLeod's "Historic Families ... of the Lennox" (1891).

It will suffice to give one example here, in part: of the two upright red marble tablets standing together on the left, the leftmost one commemorates Joseph Tucker Geils and "his wife Hester Elizabeth Wilson or Bessis, eldest daughter of Col Nathan Wilson", etc.

It is presumably their initials that appear (as ITG and HEG) on an NS3478 : Old wellhead, Geilston Gardens; those gardens are located just under a mile to the north-west of this burial ground. The initials JTG likewise appear on nearby NS3478 : Geilston Halls: see NS3477 : Geilston Halls: detail.

The Geils family were notable landowners in the area. However, Geilston, one of the areas with which they were associated, is not named after them; as explained in another item on NS3477 : Cardross Old Parish Church, that place-name considerably pre-dates the family's presence in the area.

For other lands that belonged to the Geils family, see the end of the item NS4274 : Dumbuck Quarry, and NS4673 : The Geils Memorial (in Old Kilpatrick).