English / Map Form: Loch Chon
Gaelic Form: Loch Con
Location: Strathyre
Post Town: STIRLING
Postcode area: FK8
County: Stirlingshire
Local Authority: Stirling
English / Map Form: Loch Chon
Gaelic Form: Loch Con
Language Notes
G loch, nom. sg. masc. + irregular gen. pl. of cu, masc. ‘dog’ = ‘Loch of dogs’Element Meaning
Sources
Loch Ko c. 1591 Pont map 17
Loch-con, water of Con 1724 Description of six parishes (Macf. Geog. Coll vol. 1 p. 343)
Lochcon 1724 Inchcallioch or Buchanan Paroch (Macf. Geog. Coll vol. 1 p. 347)
Loch Chon 1783 Stobie
Loch Chon 1820 Thomson
Loχ-con Diack MS2276
