Loch Dornal | |
Coords: | 55.0506°N -4.6747°W |
Inflow: | Corwar burn |
Outflow: | Carrick burn |
Pushpin Map: | Scotland South Ayrshire |
Basin Countries: | Scotland |
Length: | 0.66miles |
Width: | 0.33miles |
Area: | 43.8ha[1] |
Depth: | 5feet |
Max-Depth: | 10feet |
Volume: | 26000000ft3 |
Shore: | 4.9km (03miles) |
Elevation: | 118m (387feet) |
Islands: | several islets |
Loch Dornal is an irregular shaped, shallow, freshwater loch in south Ayrshire, in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. It lies approximately 8abbr=offNaNabbr=off northwest of the town of Newton Stewart.[2]
There are several islets in the loch some of which contain archaeological features.[3]
The loch is stocked with rainbow trout and fishing is permitted with permission from Drumlamford Estate.[4]
The loch was surveyed[2] in 1903 by James Murray and later charted [5] as part of Sir John Murray's Bathymetrical Survey of Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland 1897-1909.