Loch Loyal
Loch Loyal is a freshwater Scottish loch, located near Lairg in Sutherland, in the northern Highlands. Loch loyal ranges about four miles long by about one half wide, and drops to a depth of two hundred feet.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Body of water
- Description: freshwater lake in HIghland, Scotland, UK, outflows via Uidh Ghaineamhach to Loch Craggie
- Also known as: “Loch Laoghal”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Syre and Tongue.
Syre
Hamlet
Syre is a small settlement, located within Strath Naver, Sutherland in the Scottish Highlands. Notable buildings in Syre include a tin church built in the late 19th century and a farmhouse known as "Patrick Sellar's House". Syre is situated 5 miles southeast of Loch Loyal.
Tongue
Village
Photo: Florian Fuchs, CC BY 3.0.
Tongue is a coastal village in northwest Highland, Scotland, in the western part of the former county of Sutherland. It lies on the east shore above the base of the Kyle of Tongue and north of the mountains Ben Hope and Ben Loyal on the A836. Tongue is situated 6 miles north of Loch Loyal.
Loch Loyal
- Category: lake
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.39492° or 58° 23′ 42″ northLongitude
-4.36118° or 4° 21′ 40″ westElevation
482 feet (147 metres)Open location code
9CCQ9JVQ+XGOpenStreetMap ID
way 4917976OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Venetian—“Loch Loyal” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Loch Loyal”
- Dutch: “Loch Loyal”
- French: “loch Loyal”
- French: “Loch Loyal”
- German: “Loch Loyal”
- Italian: “Loch Loyal”
- Swedish: “Loch Loyal”
- Venetian: “Loch Loyal”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Loch Loyal”. Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.