# River Eachaig

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{{Short description|River in Argyll and Bute, Scotland}}
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| name                    = River Eachaig
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| name_etymology          = place of horses<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gilles |first1=H.Cameron |title=The Place-Names of Argyll |date=1906 |publisher=D.Nutt |location=London |page=52 |url=https://www.electricscotland.com/books/placenames/placenamesofargy00gill.pdf |accessdate=26 December 2018}}</ref>
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| image_caption      = The River Eachaig at [Benmore Botanic Garden](/source/Benmore_Botanic_Garden)
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| source1            = [Loch Eck](/source/Loch_Eck)
| source1_location   = [Cowal](/source/Cowal)
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| mouth              = [Holy Loch](/source/Holy_Loch)
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| tributaries_left   = [Little Eachaig River](/source/Little_Eachaig_River), [River Massan](/source/River_Massan)
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The '''River Eachaig''' is a river on the [Cowal Peninsula](/source/Cowal), in [Argyll and Bute](/source/Argyll_and_Bute), west of Scotland.

The river flows from [Loch Eck](/source/Loch_Eck) to the [Holy Loch](/source/Holy_Loch), passing [Benmore Botanic Garden](/source/Benmore_Botanic_Garden), [Rashfield](/source/Rashfield) and [Cot House](/source/Cot_House). It is joined by the [Inverchapel Burn](/source/Inverchapel_Burn) and the [River Massan](/source/River_Massan). The [Little Eachaig River](/source/Little_Eachaig_River) joins the River Eachaig immediately before it empties into the Holy Loch.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fishpal.com/Scotland/Clyde/|title=bookings for everyone|website=www.fishpal.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.uklaws.org/statutory/instruments_15/doc15201.htm|title=The Annual Close Time (River Eachaig Salmon Fishery District) Order 1995<!-- Bot generated title -->}}</ref>

The old route from [Inveraray](/source/Inveraray) to the [Firth of Clyde](/source/Firth_of_Clyde) involved travelling down Loch Eck, then crossing the River Eachaig to get to [Dunoon](/source/Dunoon) – [Mary Queen of Scots](/source/Mary_Queen_of_Scots) went this way in 1563. A small boat or punt called a coite carried passengers over the river, and the thatched house of the ferryman became known as the Cot House, eventually the Cot House Inn.<ref name="McKillop" />

Around 1835 [David Napier](/source/David_Napier_(marine_engineer)) built a road from [Kilmun](/source/Kilmun) pier to Loch Eck as part of the "new route to Inveraray", and at this time the ferry was replaced by a wooden bridge. This in time needed replaced, and around the end of 1884 the Trustees of the Dunoon District of Roads, Argyllshire, arranged for engineers and contractors to construct a new malleable iron girder bridge spanning {{convert|70|ft|m}} over the river; this bridge was completed in May 1885.<ref name="McKillop" /> It is a single-span [wrought iron](/source/wrought_iron) double warren [lattice truss bridge](/source/lattice_truss_bridge), spanning between abutments at each end with splayed stone parapets.<ref name="LB50433" />

thumb|left|The Eachaig Bridge built in 1885 across the River Eachaig at the Cot House Inn, Kilmun.<ref name="McKillop">{{cite web | last=McKillop | first=Tom | title=The Eachaig Bridge | website=Historic Kilmun | url=http://www.historickilmun.org/stories/the-eachaig-bridge | access-date=28 February 2019}}</ref>
This route was still shown in the [Ordnance Survey](/source/Ordnance_Survey) 7th series one-inch map published in 1960, in following decades the A815 main road was realigned with a curve crossing the river on a new bridge to the north of the old bridge, and the A880 side road from Kilmun extended to join this as a side road.<ref name="OS one-inch 1960">{{cite web | title=Explore georeferenced maps - OS one-inch map 7th series, see OpenTopoMap background for road realignment | website=National Library of Scotland | date=29 October 2018 | url=https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15&lat=56.0052&lon=-4.9654&layers=11&b=11 | access-date=5 March 2019 | archive-date=6 October 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201006094833/https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15&lat=56.0052&lon=-4.9654&layers=11&b=11 | url-status=dead }} ([https://maps.nls.uk/view/91553706 OS map published 1960])</ref> The old bridge is still in place, and is a [listed building](/source/listed_building) as a rare example of an unaltered wrought iron bridge.<ref name="LB50433">{{cite web | title=Kilmun, Eachaig Bridge Including Stone Parapets (LB50433) | website=Historic Environment Scotland | date=1 October 2015 | url=https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB50433 | access-date=5 March 2019}}</ref>

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==References==
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==External links==

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170218235905/http://www.uklaws.org/statutory/instruments_15/doc15201.htm River Eachaig, fishing closed season]
* {{cite web | title=River Eachaig circuit | website=Walkhighlands | url=http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/argyll/river-eachaig.shtml | ref={{sfnref | Walkhighlands}} | accessdate=23 April 2017}} – description of {{convert|7|km|mi}} walk, includes pronunciation of "Eachaig".
* [https://www.rbge.org.uk/visit/benmore-botanic-garden/ Benmore Botanic Garden]

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