On the right is Tom a' Mhòid, "the hill of the court" (for more pictures, click on the end-note title). The name contains a form of the word "mòd", which can also be translated "assembly" or "gathering"; however, in the context of this particular place-name, it is an assembling to dispense justice.

The name has been translated "Court Hill"; another English equivalent would be "Moot Hill", and some hills of that name were used in the same way; see, for example,NS5477 : Moot Hill, Mugdock Country Park.

For a time, the early mormaers (or earls) of Lennox had their seat nearby, at Faslane Castle (now long gone). However, much closer to Tom a' Mhòid is a dun, which, it has been suggested(*), was the mormaers' earlier seat of power. That "old dun" (Gaelic "sean dùn") may have given nearby Shandon its name; seeLink

(*) See, for example, pages 13 and 15 of I M M MacPhail's "A Short History of Dumbartonshire" (1962).