Grennoch, Loch, a lake on the Minnigaff or NW border of Girthon parish, Kirkcudbrightshire, 4 miles N by W of Drumore station, and 8½ ENE of Newton-Stewart. Lying 680 feet above sea-level, and extending 2 miles north-by-eastward, it has an utmost breadth of 3 furlongs, and sends off a streamlet 2½ miles northward to the Dee. Its waters, containing char and many small trout, are preserved. Round it rise rugged hills and solitary moorlands to heights of from 1300 to 2000 feet above sea-level, and at its SW corner stands Loch Grennoch Lodge, a wooden shooting-box, prettily engirt with rhododendrons.Ord. Sur., shs. 4, 8, 1857-63.
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