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Charles McDowall

Advocate who took a twenty-five-year lease of the Kintyre coal in 1773 and commissioned James Watt to survey a canal route to Campbeltown to carry it, replacing the pack ponies and carts that had taken it over the foothills.

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Argyll Colliery, Machrihanish Argyll and Bute 1773–1791

Record created: 25 August 2026 · Last researched: 25 August 2026

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