Loch Achilty
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Loch Achilty is a large picturesque lowland freshwater loch in Ross-shire, set within a sloping birch and oakwood forest, and located near to Contin in Easter Ross.[1][2]
This loch is notable for having no outflow. It has been assumed that it is discharging its surplus water by way of a subterranean channel into the River Rosay (now known as the Black Water) [3] that eventually flows into the larger River Conon.
Geography
Loch Achilty is a small but deep loch in Torrachilty wood, three miles west of Strathpeffer (Cromartyshire). Amongst its fish, the loch contains char. In outline it is somewhat elliptical, with the long axis trending north-east and south-west. The floor of Loch Achilty is irregular. The 10-foot contour follows approximately the outline of the loch, in many places approaching very close to the shore, but the deeper contours are all sinuous in character, and there are two small basins exceeding 100 feet in depth, the larger and deeper towards the western shore, and the smaller, based on a sounding of 112 feet, near the centre of the loch.[2]
Location
- Location map: 57°34’22"N, 4°37’18"W
References
- ↑ Loch Achilty: British Lakes
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 John, Murray; Lawrence, Pullar Bathymetrical Survey of the Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland, 1897-1909 Lochs of the Conon Basin Volume II - Loch Achilty (1910). National Library of Scotland: National Challenger Officer. p. 275. https://maps.nls.uk/bathymetric/text/37452. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- ↑ The Gazetteer of Scotland. Balfour and Jack, Edinburgh. 1836. p. 21.