A precipitous volcanic plug which overlooks Glanderston Dam in East Renfrewshire, Duncarnock (known locally as The Craigie) rises to 204m (668 feet) 1½ miles (2.5 km) southeast of Neilston. Its summit is marked by an Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar. This is the site of a hill-fort which extends to an area of 1.5 ha (3.7 acres), occupying the entirety of the hilltop and is enclosed by a ruined stone wall, approximately rectangular in shape, up to 7m (23 feet) thick but reduced to a grassy bank 1.5m (5 feet) in height. Remains of a rig-and-furrow cultivation system and a pair of small buildings most-likely suggest re-use of the fort in the early Mediaeval period.
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