Loch Dubh | |
Location: | Loch Ard Forest, Scotland |
Coordinates: | 56.1937°N -4.5713°W |
Type: | lochan |
Etymology: | "Black Loch" |
Inflow: | Duchray Water |
Outflow: | Duchray Water |
Basin Countries: | United Kingdom |
Area: | 4.8ha |
Depth: | 21feet |
Max-Depth: | 41feet |
Shore: | 1.1km (00.7miles) |
Elevation: | 141m (463feet) |
Pushpin Map: | Scotland Stirling |
Loch Dubh ("Black Loch") is a lochan on the Duchray Water in the western part of Loch Ard Forest in the Central Highlands of Scotland.[1] [2]
Loch Dubh nestles in a wooded valley called Gleann Dubh at a height of about 140 metres above sea level. It is 4 kilometres east of Scotland's most popular Munro, Ben Lomond (974 m), one kilometre south of Beinn Dubh (508 m), 1½ kilometres northeast of Beinn Bahn (569 m) and five kilometres west northwest of Kinlochard near the head of Loch Ard.