4th gen Suthen' wrote:I know the Campbells somehow cut off the water supply to the castle but there is no way the River Con could have flowed to the sea any other way.........the lie of the land would not let it go to the other side of the rock.
I am pretty sure there was a spring within the castle grounds and with the long hot summer it ran dry......
4th gen, according to the book I mentioned earlier (kintyre in the 17th century) "there were two branches of the coniglen water which in those days meandered over flat land near to where southend village now stands, and did not enter the sea by it's present straight channel, which was cut only in the year 1817. the two stripes of water were defended by a trench."
I realise this doesn't necessarily mean it entered the sea on the other side of the rock, but if you've got any ideas where it did i'd love to know. Maybe 1st gen told ye! Also according to same source there are two accounts of the castles water supply, one says that there was a supply piped into the castle and another that states "the only water that was inside the castle walls was that which fell from the sky".The second was from the memoirs of sir James Turner who was an officer of david leslie and gives the only eye witness account of the siege so this is the more likely truth.
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