The Famous Tay Whale Dundee city centre. Paul Godfrey described McGonagall on the strength of the "Tay Whale" and other verse as "the worst poet in the English language". Hugh MacDiarmid wrote of the "Tay Whale" that "what this [the verses about John Wood and the Tay Whale] amounts to, of course, is simply what quite uneducated and stupid people—the two adjectives by no means necessarily go together, for many uneducated people have great vitality and a raciness of utterance altogether lacking here—would produce if asked to recount something they had read in a newspaper." MacDiarmid continued that "in their retailings of, or comments
Loch Tay Loch Tatha"). The Scottish Crannog Centre, which contains a reconstructed crannog, is located on the south shore of the loch. Loch Tay railway station was on the Killin Railway. It is now closed. In ancient times (in the Iron Age) people lived on defensible, man-made islands on the loch, called crannogs. More than 20 submerged crannogs have been identified in the loch. An example has now been reconstructed on the south side of the loch at the "Scottish Crannog Centre". Loch Tay Loch Tay (Scottish Gaelic, "Loch Tatha") is a freshwater loch in the central highlands of Scotland, in the