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KILMACOLM VILLAGE,SMALL
TOWN OUTSIDE OF GLASGOW HOME OF THE DESTROYED DUCHAL CASTLE LYLE COUNTRY
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KILMACOLM MEMORIAL WATER WORKS 1878 LYLE COUNTRY
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THE WATERY UBLEET OF DUCHAL. BLACK WATER SIDE
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NICKOLUS&RANAE AT DUCHAL CASTLE. HOME OF THE LYLES CLAN.THE DU PRINCE OR LORD LYLE
HOME.
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DUCHAL IS A GALIC WORD MEANING (DU)BLACK(CHAL)WATER.ERECTED
IN 1070 BY RALPH DEISLE(LYLE)AFTER HIS ASSISTANCE TO WILLIAM DUKE OF NORMANDY.1066 BATTLE OF HASTINGS.
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BLACK WATER CAN BE SEEN GOING UP THE SECOND TOWER WHERE THE LYLE CLAN JOINED THE BLACK&GREEN
RIVERS MAKING THE MOAT DUCHAL IS NOT TOTALY SUROUNDED BY A MOAT THERE IS LAND LEADING TO THE CASTLE ON THE GREEN WATER SIDE
THE BLACK WATER SIDE IS UNCROSSABLE AND THE GREEN SIDE IS TO EXCEPT FOR A LITTLE PIECE OF LAND.
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