According to local belief, the name is reputed to be derived from its location on the route taken by Mary, Queen of Scots to the site of the Battle of Langside.
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Pollokshaws Road and Minard Road provided the shopping area for Crossmyloof, Shawlands and Langside - mainly in small shop units until the construction of the area's first supermarket by the Co-operative during the 1960s.
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The original village of Crossmyloof was situated in the north-western corner of Cathcart parish and was formed around the junction of what are now Pollokshaws Road and Langside Avenue (the road to Cathcart).
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When Hugh MacDonald passed through Crossmyloof on one of his Rambles in 1851, he found that the weavers of Crossmyloof and Strathbungo, like their neighbours on the hill above at Langside, were 'celebrated growers of tulips, pansies, dahlias and other floricultural favourites' and met regularly at their florist clubs to examine choice flowers and discuss the best means of rearing them to perfection.