Loch Dochart is a small freshwater
loch on the Lochdochart Estate in
Stirling
Stirling (; sco, Stirlin; gd, Sruighlea ) is a city in central Scotland, northeast of Glasgow and north-west of Edinburgh. The market town, surrounded by rich farmland, grew up connecting the royal citadel, the medieval old town with its me ...
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Scottish Highlands
The Highlands ( sco, the Hielands; gd, a’ Ghàidhealtachd , 'the place of the Gaels') is a historical region of Scotland. Culturally, the Highlands and the Lowlands diverged from the Late Middle Ages into the modern period, when Lowland S ...
. It lies approximately to the east of the town of
Crianlarich
Crianlarich (; gd, A' Chrìon Làraich) is a village in Stirling council area and in the registration county of Perthshire, Scotland, around north-east of the head of Loch Lomond. The village bills itself as "the gateway to the Highlands".
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at the foot of
Ben More.
There is a small wooded island in the middle of the loch on which stands the ruins of a castle originally built by Sir Duncan Campbell between 1583 and 1631.
The loch was surveyed
on 11 May 1902 by T.N. Johnston and James Parsons and later charted as part of
Sir John Murray's ''The Bathymetrical Survey of Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland 1897-1909''.
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Dochart
The River Dochart ( gd, Dochard) is in Perthshire, Scotland.
Coming from Ben Lui, it flows east out of Loch Dochart and through the glen of the same name. At Killin just before it enters Loch Tay are the Falls of Dochart. The river is sometimes ...
Dochart
The River Dochart ( gd, Dochard) is in Perthshire, Scotland.
Coming from Ben Lui, it flows east out of Loch Dochart and through the glen of the same name. At Killin just before it enters Loch Tay are the Falls of Dochart. The river is sometimes ...
LDochart