Old Photograph The Fairy Loup Canonbie Scotland

Old photograph of the Fairy Loup waterfall on Byre Burn, a tributary of River Esk near Canonbie, located six miles South of Langholm in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The waterfall's name originates from a local legend of " a fairy having leaped from one side to the other ", and is an example of a regional tradition of associating small streams with fairies. This waterfall was one of several features near Langholm described in the poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid.



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