| Loch Achilty | |
| Coordinates: | 57.5727°N -4.6217°W |
| Type: | freshwater loch |
| Length: | 4500feet |
| Width: | 1350feet |
| Area: | 57.1ha[1] |
| Depth: | 51.75feet |
| Max-Depth: | 119feet |
| Shore: | 4.7km (02.9miles) |
| Elevation: | 37m (121feet) |
| Islands: | Three islands. |
| Pushpin Map: | Scotland Ross and Cromarty |
Loch Achilty is a large deep picturesque lowland freshwater loch set within a sloping birch and oakwood forest, located near Contin[2] [3] in Easter Ross in the Scottish Highlands of Scotland. Loch Achilty is notable for having no outflow. It has been assumed that the loch discharges its surplus water via an underground tunnel into the River Rosay (now known as the Black Water[4]) that eventually flows into the larger River Conon.[5]
Loch Achilty is a small but deep loch in Torrachilty wood, three miles west of Strathpeffer, and 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 10feet 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 in depth, the larger and deeper towards the western shore, and the smaller, based on a sounding of, near the centre of the loch.[3]