Loch Etive

Loch Etive is 17 miles long. The north end of the loch is dominated by the view up Glen Etive to the Buachaille Etive Mor that stands at the point where Glen Etive meets Glen Coe.

At the southern end of Loch Etive lies the ruin of Dunstaffnage castle; this was built as a thirteenth century McDougal fort. The castle was captured by Robert the Bruce in 1309, and remained in Royal hands until it was handed over to the Campbells in 1409. It also served as a prison for Flora McDonald during the 1745 Jacobite Rising and was eventually destroyed by fire in 1810.

The water of the loch spills over the Falls of Lora towards at ebb and the this is reversed at flood.

A ferry once ran from the old pier to Connel near Oban in 1847.

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