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Loch Awe (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Obha; also sometimes anglicised as Lochawe, Lochaw, or Lochow) is a large body of freshwater in Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands. It has also given its name to a village on its banks, variously known as Loch Awe or Lochawe.
Kilchurn Castle (/ k əl ˈ x ʊər n /) [1] is a ruined structure on a rocky peninsula at the northeastern end of Loch Awe, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.It was first constructed in the mid-15th century as the base of the Campbells of Glenorchy, who extended both the castle and their territory in the area over the next 150 years.
Ardanaiseig (Scottish Gaelic: Àird an Aiseig) is a settlement on Loch Awe, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. [ citation needed ] Loch Awe is one of Scotland's longest freshwater lochs . [ citation needed ] The Ardanaiseig Hotel, a historic country house, has been converted into a luxury hotel.
Loch is a Scottish Gaelic word for a lake or fjord (cognate with the Irish Gaelic loch, which is anglicised as lough and with the older Welsh word for a lake, llwch) that has been borrowed by Scots and Scottish English to apply to such bodies of water, especially those in Scotland. Whilst "loch" or "lochan" is by far the most widespread name ...
Fraoch Eilean/Ejlean is a small island situated at the northern end of Loch Awe, a freshwater lake in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.It is notable for being the site of a medieval royal castle, now ruined, which was given into the keeping of Clan Macnaghten by Alexander III in 1267.
Loch Awe is a small loch, located 4 miles south of Loch Assynt and next to the village of Ledmore, within the Assynt area of Sutherland, Scotland. [ 3 ] [ 2 ] [ 1 ] The loch is located in an area along with neighbouring Coigach , as the Assynt-Coigach National Scenic Area , [ 4 ] one of 40 such areas in Scotland.
The Awe Hydro-Electric Scheme was the penultimate scheme developed by the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board.It centres around Loch Awe, in Argyll and Bute, on the southern edge of the Scottish Highlands.
The River Awe (Scottish Gaelic: Uisge Abha) is a short river in Argyll and Bute, Southwest Highlands of Scotland by which the freshwater Loch Awe empties into Loch Etive, a sea loch. The river flows from a barrage which stretches across the end of a deep arm of the loch which protrudes northwestward through the Pass of Brander from the ...