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Loch Tollaidh

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Several small islands sit within the loch, the largest of which is believed to have been a
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before its abandonment in 1480. Underwater remains show evidence of stone causeways.
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operated on the loch from the late 1980s until it's removal in the late 2010s.
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Loch Tollaidh is located in Ross and Cromarty
Scottish Highlands
57°44′40.3″N 5°37′44.1″W / 57.744528°N 5.628917°W / 57.744528; -5.628917
Primary outflows
Basin
Islands
loch
Wester Ross
Scotland
Poolewe
A832 road
moorland
Scottish Gaelic
Lewisian gneiss
bouldering
crannog
Clans MacBeth
MacLeod
Atlantic salmon
farm
"The Gaelic origins of place names in Britain"
"Loch Tollaidh Crags"
"Loch Tollaidh Crags | Go Further Scotland"
"MHG7729 - Crannog, Loch Tollaidh - Highland Historic Environment Record"
"Scottish Aquaculture fishfarm list"
cite web
link
Stub icon
Scottish

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