KILSYTH  , a

police burgh of Stirlingshire, Scotland, on the Kelvin, 13 in . N.N.E. of Glasgow by the North British railway, and close to the Forth and Clyde canal . Pop . (1901), 7292 . The principal buildings are the town and public halls, and the academy . The chief industries are coal-mining and iron-works; there are also manufactures of paper and cotton, besides quarrying of whinstone and sandstone . There are considerable remains of the Wall of Antoninus south of the town, and to the north the ruins of the old castle . Kilsyth dates from the middle of the 17th century and became a burgh of barony in 1826 . It was the scene of Montrose's defeat of the Covenanters on the 15th of August 1645 . The town was the centre of remarkable religious revivals in 1742-3 and 1839, the latter conducted by William Chalmers Burns (1815-1868), the missionary to China .