Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Fruin Water

Fruin Water, W. Dumbartonshire; rises 2 miles NE. of head of Gare Loch, and flows SE. through Glen Fruin to Loch Lomond 2¼ miles NW. of Balloch pier; the bloody clan conflict of Glenfruin, between the Macgregors and the Colquhouns, was fought Feb. 1603.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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Administrative units: Dunbartonshire ScoCnty
Place: Fruin

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