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Knockewart Loch or Loch Jargon was situated in a hollow lying area beneath Knockewart Hill in the Parish of Ardrossan, North Ayrshire, Scotland. The old loch has become largely drained and overgrown since the late 19th century.〔Love, Page 89〕 ==History== The loch is recorded as Loch Jargon on the earlier maps after the prominent fort situated nearby.〔(RCAHMS Site ) Retrieved : 2011-02-18〕 Once Knockewart Farm was established the maps use this name for it. The Ordnance Survey Map of 1897 shows the loch as having been drained through a breaching of the natural dam bank and a significant deepening of the outflow for a distance of a hundred metres or so. In 1858 Fullarton〔Fullarton, Page 139〕 records that it was once a haunt of pike, however the ''accumulation of vegetable matter in the bed of their domain'' made it unlikely that pike could survive and that it was now an excellent site for the breeding of wild ducks. By 1876 Dobie records that the loch has nearly dried up and is little more than a swamp.〔Dobie, Page 317〕 In 1887 the Natural History Society of Glasgow had an excursion to West Kilbride and observed in their transactions that the party reached Knockewart Loch, a small sheet of water which is now almost wholly covered with a growth of surface vegetation.''〔Transactions, NHSG, Page 328〕 The loch's drainage may have begun in the 18th century when Alexander Montgomerie, 10th Earl of Eglinton, was pursuing a number of agricultural improvements on his extensive estates and other landowners followed his example. Intensive drainage work may have taken place as part of the improvements undertaken to provide employment for Irish estate workers during the Irish potato famines of the mid 19th centuries. Many drainage schemes also date to the end of WWI when many soldiers returned en masse to civilian life.〔MacIntosh, Pages 37 & 39〕 Busbie Muir Reservoir was constructed in the glen beneath the loch, opening in 1903. The loch's outfall water still drain into it before continuing as the Rowanside Burn, joining the Stanley Burn, flowing over the aqueduct at the Parkhouse Cutting and running into the sea at Ardrossan South Beach. The reservoir is now used by the Ardrossan Eglinton Angling Club.〔(NAC Minutes ) Retrieved : 2011-02-18〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Knockewart Loch」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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