Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Blackwater

Blackwater, a rivulet in Kilmorie parish, Arran island, Buteshire. Ir rises a little S of the centre of the island; runs about 6 miles westward and south-south- westward to Drimadown Bay; brings down the inland road from Brodick to the SW coast; and drains Shiskin district, the largest and most fertile tract of arable land in Arran. A remarkable large cairn stood at its foot; measured more than 200 feet in diameter; and has been greatly diminished by the abstraction of its stones for building and draining purposes.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "a rivulet"   (ADL Feature Type: "streams")
Administrative units: Buteshire ScoCnty

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