Birdstone, a village in Campsie parish, Stirlingshire, adjacent to the Campsie railway, 2½ miles SE of Lennoxtown. It was the birthplace and residence of the Campsie poet, William Muir. A few Roman urns, and a number of English coins of Elizabeth, James I., and Charles I., have been exhumed in its vicinity; and the latter are supposed to have been hid by the inhabitants, on occasion of their flight from the troops of the Marquis of Montrose at the time of the battle of Kilsyth.
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