Loch Dornal
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Loch Dornal is an irregular shaped, shallow, freshwater
loch ''Loch'' () is the Scottish Gaelic, Scots language, Scots and Irish language, Irish word for a lake or sea inlet. It is Cognate, cognate with the Manx language, Manx lough, Cornish language, Cornish logh, and one of the Welsh language, Welsh w ...
in south Ayrshire, in the
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of
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. It lies approximately northwest of the town of
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. There are several islets in the loch some of which contain archaeological features. The loch is stocked with
rainbow trout The rainbow trout (''Oncorhynchus mykiss'') is a species of trout native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America. The steelhead (sometimes called "steelhead trout") is an anadromous (sea-run) form of the coasta ...
and fishing is permitted with permission from Drumlamford Estate.


Survey

The loch was surveyed in 1903 by James Murray and later charted as part of Sir John Murray's ''Bathymetrical Survey of Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland 1897-1909''.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dornal Freshwater lochs of Scotland