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The following is a list of lochs in Scotland. Loch is a Scottish Gaelic word for a lake or fiord, cognate with the Irish Gaelic lough, which has been borrowed by Scots and Scottish English to apply to such bodies of water, especially those located in Scotland.
The freshwater Lake of Menteith is the only natural body of water called a "lake" in Scotland. There are however, one or two other man-made "lakes"; the Lake of the Hirsel being an example. There are also numerous lochs called "Water", particularly in the Northern Isles e.g. Roer Water on Shetland and Heldale Water on Orkney. These are not to be confused with named rivers, particularly in the South of Scotland e.g. Whiteadder Water and Blackadder Water
Freshwater lochs
Largest and deepest
Largest and deepest lochs
Loch
|
volume
kmł
|
# |
area
km˛
|
# |
length
km
|
# |
max.
depth
m |
# |
mean
depth
m |
# |
| Loch Ness |
7.4 |
1 |
56 |
2 |
39 |
2 |
230 |
2 |
132 |
1 |
| Loch Lomond |
2.6 |
2 |
71 |
1 |
36 |
3 |
190 |
3 |
37 |
. |
| Loch Morar |
2.3 |
3 |
27 |
. |
19 |
. |
310 |
1 |
87 |
2 |
| Loch Awe |
1.2 |
(4) |
39 |
3 |
41 |
1 |
94 |
. |
32 |
. |
| Loch Lochy |
1.1 |
. |
16 |
. |
16 |
. |
162 |
(4) |
70 |
3 |
- # = rank
Alphabetical list
- Loch Achray
- Antermony Loch, East Dunbartonshire
- Loch Ard
- Loch Affric
- Loch Arkaig
- Loch Assynt in Sutherland on whose north shore stands Ardvreck Castle
- Loch Awe, the third largest loch by surface area, also the longest
- Bardowie Loch, East Dunbartonshire
- Loch Beinn a' Mheadhoin (Loch Benevian)
- Birnie Loch, nature reserve, Fife
- Black Loch, Fife
- Carlingwark Loch, by Castle Douglas
- Cash Loch, Fife
- Castle Semple Loch
- Clatteringshaws Loch, reservoir in Galloway
- Loch Cluanie
- Loch Coruisk Lonely loch in the heart of the Black Cuillin on the Isle of Skye
- Loch Dee
- Loch Dochfour
- Loch Doon
- Douglaston Loch, East Dunbartonshire
- Loch Druidibeag
- Duddingston Loch
- Loch Důghaill
- Dunalastair Water
- Loch Dungeon
- Dunsapie Loch, small, artificial loch in Holyrood Park, Edinburgh, constructed in 1844
- Loch Earn
- Loch Eck
- Loch an Eilean, in Rothiemurchus Forest
- Loch Einich, in Cairngorms
- Loch Enoch, Galloway
- Loch Errochty, Perth and Kinross
- Loch Ericht
- Loch Ettrick, Dumfriesshire
- Loch Ewe
- Fairy Lochs
- Loch Fannich
- Loch Faskally
- Loch Fitty, Fife
- Gaddon Loch, nature reserve, Fife
- Loch Garry
- Loch Gelly, Fife
- Loch Glow, Fife
- Loch Grannoch
- Loch Insh
- Loch Katrine, an important water reservoir
- Loch Ken
- Kilconquhar Loch, Fife
- Kinghorn Loch, Fife
- Loch Leven, site of Loch Leven Castle
- Lindores Loch, Fife
- Linlithgow Loch, situated to the north of Linlithgow
- Lochmill Loch, Fife
- Loch Lochy
- Loch Lomond, the largest by surface area
- Loch of the Lowes
- Loch of the Lowes, adjacent to St. Mary's Loch
- Loch Loyal
- Loch Lubnaig,
- Loch Lyon,
- Loch Maree, the fourth largest by surface area
- Loch Migdale
- Mire Loch, on St. Abb's Head, Scottish Borders
- Loch Morar, the fifth largest by surface area, also the deepest freshwater body in the British Isles
- Moor Loch, Fife
- Loch Morlich
- Morton Lochs, Fife
- Loch Mullardoch
- Loch Neldricken, Galloway
- Loch Ness, the second largest by surface area and largest by volume
- Loch Oich
- Loch Ore, Fife
- Loch Ossian
- Loch Quoich
- Loch Rannoch
- Loch Ruthven
- St. Margaret's Loch, artificial loch in Holyrood Park, Edinburgh
- St. Mary's Loch
- Loch Scaven
- Loch Shiel
- Loch Shin, the seventh largest by surface area
- Loch Sloy
- Loch of Spiggie, Shetland
- Loch Strathbeg
- Loch Tarsan A Loch in Argyll, formed by the flooding of part of Glen Lean for Hydroelectricity purposes
- Loch Tay, the sixth largest by surface area
- Loch Thom, early artificial reservoir
- Town Loch, Dunfermline, Fife
- Loch Treig
- Loch Trool
- Loch Tulla
- Loch Tummel
- Loch Venachar
- Loch Voil
- Loch Watten, Caithness loch famous for its trout
- Loch Wharral
Saltwater lochs
Historic lochs
See also
References
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