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External Reference
Date 10 February 2012
Event ID 884173
Category Documentary Reference
Type External Reference
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/884173
Per contra the above, the Willowgate is the name given to the subsidiary channel of the Tay that runs on the east side of Moncrieff Island. It is shown on Macfarlane’s 1792 map and was causing the Town concern some 40 years earlier when it was becoming apparent that the increasing draught of vessels and shallowness of the river was making the older upper harbour inaccessible. Attempts were made to redirect the main flow down the Westmost channel and, at the same time, similar braided sections downstream, at Sleepless Inch for example, were completely filled in to increase the flow.
The Willowgate still appears in the Leslie 1885 map and there seem to be small quays on the Barnhill bank directly level with the Prison [RCAHMS NO12SW 356.00]. Perhaps this is where the vessel met its end.
(PKHT cite an unverified location at NO 12082 22278).
Information from Jeremy Duncan’s Lost Perth per Andrew Driver, Sarah Malone and David Strachan (PKHT), 10 February 2012.
