Gannel Burn

A historical perspective, drawn from the Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical, edited by Francis H. Groome and originally published in parts by Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh between 1882 and 1885.

This edition is copyright © The Editors of the Gazetteer for Scotland, 2002-2011.

It has taken much time and money to make the six-volumes of Groome's text freely accessible. Please help us continue and develop by making a donation. If only one out of every ten people who view this page gave £5 or $10, the project would be self-sustaining. Sadly less than one in thirty-thousand contribute, so please give what you can.

Use the tabs on the right of this page to see other parts of this entry

G

loomingside, Cannel's, or Gannel Burn, a stream of Tillicoultry parish, Clackmannanshire, springing from Maddy Moss, on the NW shoulder of King's Seat Hill, and running 1¾ mile south-south-westward, till, after a total descent of 1100 feet, it unites with Daiglen Burn to form the Burn of Tillicoultry, at a point ¾ mile N by W of the town. Its waters were thought to be deadly to trout owing to the presence of some mineral, till in 1833 Mr Archibald of Tillicoultry (then a boy of 14) fished it by accident one misty day, and was rewarded by a fine basketfull. For two or three years he and his brother-in-law, Mr John Ure, preserved the secret, and caught many a trout of from ¼ to ¾ lb.; but now the burn has been nearly fished to death, and is not a whit better than any of its neighbours.—Ord. Sur., sh. 39, 1869.

An accompanying 19th C. Ordnance Survey map is available.

Note: This text has been made available using a process of scanning and optical character recognition. Despite manual checking, some typographical errors may remain. Please remember this description dates from the 1880s; names may have changed, administrative divisions will certainly be different and there are known to be occasional errors of fact in the original text, which we have not corrected because we wish to maintain its integrity. This information is provided subject to our standard disclaimer.