Placename
Gaelic name: Loch na h-Oidhche
Name in Original Source: Loch na h-Eangaiche
English meaning: The night loch
Placename feature: Loch
Notes: Properly, Loch na h-Oidhche, the Ordnance Survey map of 1880 names this Loch na h-Eangaiche, and gives the meaning as the loch of the nets. This small loch lies to the north-west of Loch Gainmheach (q.v.)
W. J. Watson's notes: 214: Loch na h-oidhche (O.S.M. Loch na h-eangaich) - Night loch. The name is common, and is applied to lochs that fish best at night. It is near the bigger of the two lochs Gainmheach.
Map name appears in: OS 1880, 1905 Sheet XCI
Feature Co-ordinates: 57.522354,-5.766715
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