| Comment | u/still-searching
Did a little bit of digging and found this. Thought it would be of interest to you...
> The Drygate is undoubtedly the oldest thoroughfare in the city. In Jamieson's history of the Culdees it is stated that the Pagans brought the word dry from Germany, as being the name by which every German priest was called. In ancient times, anterior to our ecclesiastical history, a Druidical place of worship stood on the site of the present Necropolis, the only-approach to which must have been the Drygate, hence it was designated the priests' road. A mint-house was erected here during the reign of Robert the Third.
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> TEXT FROM JACK HOUSE
>Straight across from the Rotterrow is the Drygate which was once a Roman Road. Duke Street Prison dominated the Drygate for many years. Now there is the housing complex, and its pillared entrance with the Cathedral Square opposite.
>When you cross John Knox Street, you find that the rest of the Drygate, which led over the Molendinar Burn to the Lady's Well, has been reduced to a short cul-de-sac, for the gigantic Tennent's Brewery reached out over the Molendinar and swallowed up part of the ancient history of Glasgow.
>The Drygate was the place where such great lords as the Dukes of Montrose had their town houses. One of the first bridges in Glasgow was build over the Molendinar Burn here. |
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