Lairo Water is a surface water body known as an ayre situated on the western coast of Shapinsay in the Orkney Islands.[1] 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.[2] Hogan has suggested that the Lairo Water may have been a source of subsistence food for prehistoric inhabitants of Shapinsay at Burroughston Broch.[3]
![Lairo Water](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Lairo_Water.jpg/220px-Lairo_Water.jpg)
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59°3′21″N 2°51′20″W / 59.05583°N 2.85556°W