Old photograph of the Kerry Falls located between Loch Maree and Gairloch, Scotland The River Kerry, from the Old Norse meaning copse, flows from Loch na h-Oidche, meaning loch of the night, just over three miles to Loch Gairloch in Wester Ross. The upper reaches are fast flowing through a deep gorge and in the 1950s a small hydro electric power station was built on the river harnessing the waters of the Kerry Falls. It originally provided power for the local community but is now part of the National Grid. The contractor for the Kerry Falls Power Station was William Logan, born 1913, died 1966, head of the building firm of Duncan Logan Limited, of Muir of Ord, better known as the contractors for the Tay Bridge. William Logan was the founder of Loganair in 1962. From its beginnings as an air taxi service for the company it became known as Scotland's airline and today operates a network of internal and inter island routes. William Logan was killed in January 1966 when the aircraft in which he was the sole passenger crashed on Dunain Hill near Inverness. The lower reaches of the Kerry River supports one of the healthiest populations of freshwater pearl mussels in the United Kingdom.
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