Loch Treig
Loch Treig is a freshwater loch five and a half miles long lying in a steep-sided glen twelve and a half miles east of Fort William, in Inverness-shire. While there are no roads alongside the loch, the West Highland Line follows its eastern bank.
The grim name of the loch is the Gaelic Loch Trèig, meaning 'Lake of Death'.
Since 1929 Loch Treig has been a reservoir, retained behind the Treig Dam, forming part of the Lochaber hydro-electric scheme, which required diversion of the West Highland Railway.[1] The increase in water level following the construction of the dam submerged the small communities of Kinlochtreig and Creaguaineach at the loch's southern end, which had historically hosted locally important markets and had been the end point of a cattle drovers' road.
Location
- Location map: 56°48’50"N, 4°43’37"W
