Kilbarchan is the house of Kilbarchan Amateur Athletics Club, & contains the Elementary school & ii churches. A independent annual event is the celebration of Lilias Day, on the foremost Saturday of June.

A village was it used to be that one of numerous weaving villages, and at once there were 800 handlooms in the village. A weavers move in the Radical movement which sought parliamentary reform, and Kilbarchan played the a portion in the agitation of the thus-supposed Radical War of 1820. Of these bungalow built within 1723 has been conserved by the National Trust for Scotland with weaving still operational, & guides demonstrate handloom weaving to visitant.