Crow Mount, Greenock

Crow Mount or “the Mount” as it was called was a wooded area of Greenock.  

Photo - Greenock Burns Club

Described in “Views and Reminiscences of Old Greenock” (1891) as stretching - “westwards from Bank Street to Ann Street and running northwards from Dempster Street to Roxburgh Street”.  When this photograph was taken “largely a plantation with a few gardens, and here and there a cottage or residence of some well-known citizen”.                

Map 1861

It is described as “in its way, a miniature forest, with trees of luxuriant growth, which attracted crows, and made it a breeding place and a centre for this well known species of bird, the chorus of whose peculiar cawing became a familiar feature of the neighbourhood”. 

Map 1915

While over the years the area became built up, it was still remembered in the names of buildings which once stood in the area – Mount Park Free Church (Trafalgar Street) which opened in 1874 and the Mount School.