Loch Mannoch
Loch Mannoch is an inland loch in Kirkcudbrightshire, found to the north of Tongland in that county. A quiet place far from any town, it is known mainly for coarse fishing.
The loch is fed by the many burns running off the hills and out of the Glengap Forest, and a stream over waterfalls which soon swells into the Tarff Water to flow down to Tongland and the River Dee. The loch's shore of marsh and blasted heath shore produce a bleak or forbidding beauty, and the woodland breaking through on the western shore adds to the wilderness appearance.
There are three burnt mounds at Loch Mannoch,[1] telling of early occupation hereabouts. By the loch shore stands a sad monument of more recent time; the Martyrs' Memorial, in a little, forlorn wooded enclosure, commemorating the massacre of Covenanters here during the Killing Times in the seventeenth century.
Outside links
 |
("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Loch Mannoch) |
References
- ↑ Loch Mannoch – The Royal Commission for Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland