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Knockruan Loch

reservoir in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK, outflows east via a watercourse to Smerby Burn

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ7375779 ↗
Source-derived summary

Knockruan Loch is a reservoir of the impounding variety, located 2.5 kilometres north of Campbeltown, Scotland, and is one of three lochs supplying water to the town. The earthfill dam is 1.82 metres high and was completed in 1931.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Knockruan Loch” as reservoir in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK, outflows east via a watercourse to Smerby Burn. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1931—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Knockruan, Loch and reservoir can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as reservoir in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK, outflows east via a watercourse to Smerby Burn. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7375779. Authority coordinates are 55.446, -5.587. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1931.

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This entry incorporates text from “Knockruan Loch” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.