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[pjgriffo]

1. Town in Perthshire (8)
- U - - L - - E
(cannot find a town remotely fitting that pattern)

2. Type of goose found at the pole is a tall one (8)
B - - N - - - -
(BARNACLE fits but whats the logic?)

3. Type of Irish spade (6)
- - R - - N
(possibly starts with L viz.. L - R - - N

[1955]

1. Dunblane

[slaney]

3. Lurgan

[excelsior]

there is a species called a barnacle goose

[pjgriffo]

Thanks folks.
I know Barnacle is a goose around the north pole, but whats the "tall one" reference

[slaney]

There is also a barnacle-goose a crustacean with a long neck.

[nmed1]

I think it might be beanpole there is a bean goose and the tall one ... well it kinda fits