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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 846001
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/846001
NS55NW 146.02 52138 57260
See NS55NW 146.00 for history and description of Gorbals Gravitational Waterworks
For other reservoirs within the Balgray complex, see:
NS55NW 132 NS 51336 57142 Balgray Reservoir
NS55NW 134 NS 52167 57696 Littleton Reservoir
NS55NW 135.00 NS 52472 57818 Waulkmill Glen Reservoir
Ryat Linn Reservoir [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1990.
This reservoir forms a major element of the Balgray Reservoir complex. It has been formed by damming the Brock Burn, and crosses the boundary between the parishes of Neilston and Mearns.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 January 2006.
This reservoir was built in 1847-8 under the powers of the 1846 Act (Act of Parliament, 9 & 10 Victoria I, c. cccxlvii). The reservoir covers 8.5 hectares (21 imperial acres) and can hold 12 upto million cubic feet of water.
Infomation from Jelle Muylle, engineer carrying out survey of sites and structures of Gorbals Waterworks for RCAHMS, Historic Scotland funded, December 2007.
