Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Creran

Creran, a stream and a sea-loch in the N of Argyllshire, separating the district of Appin from the parish of Ardchattan. The stream rises 4¾ miles SSE of Ballachulish, on the south-western slope of Sgor na h-Ulaidh (3258 feet), at 2500 feet above sea-level, and thence winds 11¼ miles west-south-westward to the head of the sea-loch. The lower part of its glen is finely wooded, and here it receives the Ure, and traverses Loch Fasnacloich; its waters are strictly preserved, and the salmon and trout fishing is good.-The sea-loch curves 8 miles west-south-westward, north-westward, and south-westward to Loch Linnhe, opposite the upper part of Lismore Island, and nowhere is more than 13/8 mile broad, whilst narrowing to 2 furlongs at its mouth near Shian Ferry, and to 1 furlong towards its head near Creagan Ferry, being Crossed at these two ferries by different routes from Oban to Ballachulish. With an average depth of 15 fathoms, and a spring-tide of 15 feet, it affords good harbourage in all its lower parts. By Dorothy Wordsworth it is described as ` a large irregular sea-loch, with low sloping banks, coppice woods, and uncultivated grounds, with a scattering of cornfields; as it appeared to ns, very thinly inhabited; mountains at a distance.' See Glen Creran.—Ord. Sur., shs. 45, e3,1876-77.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a stream and a sea-loch"   (ADL Feature Type: "streams")
Administrative units: Argyll ScoCnty
Place: Creran

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