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Gearnsary, it also flows down to Cnoc A' Chrom-uillt. However its tributaries go much further. Allt Glas gets water from Creag an Alltan Fhearna and is the shortest named brook in the area. Allt na Creag Liath gets water from a peak with the same name and Allt a' Bhealaich gets water from Creag Liath as well but also from Creag an Lochain. The Last stream Uidh Lochan na Gaineimh which gets water from a loch of the same name. Lochan na Gaineimh gets its water from Cnocan Liath-bhaid Mhoir.
239:. Much of the other inflow into the Rimsdale burn however is from dozens of tiny brooks and streams most of which are unnamed which create a web of waterways around the mountains. Some of the water comes all the way from the peak of Beinn a' Mhadaidh while much of the other water flows from Alltan Peallach and it's smaller unnamed tributaries some of which bring water from Loch Nan Faoileag. Adjacent to the Rimsdale burn, there's
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Sheppard's Cottage and the Garvault. Fishing and hiking are all the reasons for tourism, much like almost all other lochs in the area, trout is by far the most common catch however,
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Truderscaig coming from Preas a' Chamraig and its tributary Allt Crom Allt which gets its water directly from 3 peaks, Creag Liath, Cnoc a' Chrom-uillt and Creag Dhubh. Coming from the southern end of the loch is the Gearnsary Burn named after
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Leathaid is the smallest, least known locality in the catchment area of Loch Rimsdale, it doesn't even have a road link. It's named after the mountain it's adjacent to. It is yet another deserted township in this area abandoned with very little archaeological evidence of its existence.
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Truderscaig is home to a large amount of archaeological sites, it has a large number of remains of circular huts and rectangular buildings that were all once a part of the thriving township. The smallest is 3x3 metres in size and the largest 28x4 metres.
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Eareannach, Cnoc na h-Uidhe and Cnoc Uidh a' Chlarain to the north and south right by the loch. There's also the Naver Forest nature reserve directly east of Loch Rimsdale.
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Helmsdale but as for inflow there's many small streams that flow into Loch Rimsdale. Most importantly there's the appropriately named
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Rimsdale named after the Rimsdale burn which it sits on, it's a small farmstead consisting of 2 buildings just north of the B871. It's located on a track which separates it from the road, it is labelled as a small locality.
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Badanloch Dam in the early 1900s. Prior to this, Loch Rimsdale was recorded on Ordnance Survey maps as Loch nan Cuinne.
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Gearnsary and the Farmstead of Rimsdale are very nearby. The loch is used as both a reservoir and as one of few salmon fishery areas in
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Lodge. There's another very small trail directly in the farmstead. The Gearnsary burn is named after the farmstead although the much smaller Allt Glas is just as close to the farmstead.
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