Lairo Water

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Lairo Water is a surface water body known as an ayre situated on the western coast of Shapinsay in the Orkney Islands. (Li, 2005) This brackish water body is separated by a narrow bar of land from Veantro Bay. This wetland is an area where a variety of bird species may be found. (Orcadian Times, 2004) Hogan has suggested that the Lairo Water may have been a source of subsistence food for prehistoric inhabitants of Shapinsay at Burroughston Broch. (Hogan, 2007)

[edit] References

• Martin Li (2005) Adventure Guide to Scotland, Hunter Publishing, Inc., Great Britain, 620 pages ISBN 1588434060
• Orcadian Times (2004) Bird-watching at night? It's not that far-fetched an idea, May 20, 2004
• C. Michael Hogan, (7 Oct 2007) Burroughston Broch, The Megalithic Portal, ed. Andy Burnham

[edit] See also

• The Ouse
• Quholm
• Vasa Loch