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The buildings of the farm itself lie ahead, on either side of the track, but there are some other buildings nearby. One of these is Old Kipperoch, which is visible near the lone tree standing between the fields in the left-hand side of the photograph. Located behind it, but hidden by the trees, is Kipperoch House.

The form "Kipperminshoch" is encountered in several works in the nineteenth century, and, much earlier, Timothy Pont's map of Dunbartonshire (surveyed in the 1580s and 1590s, but published in 1654 by Joan Blaeu) shows a "Kipperminshochs" in this area. A 1570 document specifying lands being granted to Dumbarton Castle also mentions two holdings called "Kipperminshochs". The form "Kipperoch" is simply a later development of the name.

Although their meanings are elusive, these names are certainly Gaelic in origin. Reference to "Kip" and "Kippie" in the place-name index of W.J.Watson's "The Celtic Place-names of Scotland" shows that "Kip-" place names may be derived from the Gaelic "ceap" (block). The similar word "ceapach" (plot/holding) gives rise to the common place-name "Keppoch", and it is perhaps significant that there is a Keppoch (earlier "Kippoch") located just 5 km WNW of here in NS3279. Nevertheless, the meaning of Kipperminshochs remains obscure (one nineteenth-century writer suggested the Gaelic "minnseag", yearling she-goat, as a possibility for the latter half of the name).