Goodie Water, a sluggish stream of S Perthshire; issuing from the Lake of Monteith, and winding 8¾ miles east-south-eastward through the parishes of Port of Monteith, Kincardine (detached), and Kilmadock, till it falls into the Forth at a point 1½ mile NW of Gargunnock station. It contains fine red-fleshed trout; expanded formerly into a lacustrine marsh, called Goodie Lake; and was the scene of a serious disaster to the Argyll men in the military events of 1646.Ord.Sur., shs. 38, 39, 1871-69.
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