Lochinvar

Lochinvar

Lochinvar (or Lan Var) is a loch in Scotland that is now a reservoir. It nestles in the hills of Dumfries and Galloway to the north-east of St. John's Town of Dalry. It is drained by the Lochinvar Burn, which flows south to the Water of Ken. The ruins of a castle stand on a now submerged islet within the loch. The islet was submerged when the loch's level was raised as part of a project to supply drinking water in the late 1970s.

The name Lochinvar is Scots Gaelic, "Loch an barr", and means "Loch on the hilltop". Consequently it is stressed on the last syllable (unlike Lochinver).

The place gave the name to a number of aristocratic titles including the Baron of Lochinvar, the Laird of Lochinvar, and most notably to "young Lochinvar" in Walter Scott's epic poem "Marmion".

External links

* [http://www.sorbie.net/lochinvar.htm Lochinvar]
* [http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/Scott.Lochinvar.html Scott's "O Young Lochinvar is rode out of the West"]


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