Old Patrick Water
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Old Patrick Water
Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 22 Jul 2013
The view is from a bridge which carries Abbey Road over the Old Patrick Water: Image The burn is known colloquially as the Brandy Burn, because of the industry that sprang up alongside it in recent centuries. The Blaeu map (1654) of "The Baronie of Renfrow" shows it as the "Ald Patrick b." (burn). "Altpatrick", the old form, probably contains the Gaelic "allt" (burn, stream, water), later reinterpreted as "auld", and hence "old". The original sense of "allt" as "water" was lost, and "Water" was tagged on to the modern name.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.830056
Longitude
-4.484814