Breached weir in Killoch Glen
Introduction
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Breached weir in Killoch Glen
Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 23 May 2016
Taking the map at face value, this picture was taken when standing in the middle of the water just upstream of the weir. The old weir itself is breached, as shown here, and the water level above it was, after a long period of dry weather, very low: the picture was taken from an expanse of pebbles (a former mill dam); the Killoch Water was no more than a gentle burn flowing around its western margin. See also Image, a view in the opposite direction from roughly the same spot. According to http://www.wosas.net/wosas_site.php?id=7559 (at WoSAS), the mill dam served "a small bleachfield at Low Auchentiber"; Low Auchentiber itself was at about Image The weir and mill dam on the Killoch Water had not yet been formed when the first-edition OS map was surveyed in 1858; those features make their first appearance on the second-edition map (a revision based on surveying work carried out in 1895). For views of the breach from the other side (and from higher up), see Image and Image
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Image Location
Latitude
55.790567
Longitude
-4.427899