🌊 Loch na Dal

Loch na Dal is a sea loch on the Sleat Peninsula on the Isle of Skye in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. Kinloch Lodge, a hotel, is located on its northern shore and the A851 road runs along its southern shore. Although the meaning of the name is obscure in the current spelling, in the Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, 1654, the loch is listed as "Loch na Dallach". This could be "The Loch of the Delay" or "The Loch of the Meeting" or "The Loch of the Meadow". The later reading is possibly more likely, as a long river delta borders Abhainn Ceann-Locha as it enters the north end of Loch na Dal, and this piece of land is green and flat enough that it was at one time used as a football pitch.