Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Menteith, Lake of

Menteith, Lake of, Port of Menteith par., SW. Perthshire; is 1½ mile long, and 1 mile broad, sends off Goodie Water to the Forth, and contains 3 islands, Inchmahome, Inchtalla, and Dog's Isle; on Inchtalla are the ruins of the feudal stronghold of the earls of Menteith.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Administrative units: Port of Menteith ScoP       Perthshire ScoCnty
Place names: LAKE OF MENTEITH     |     MENTEITH     |     MENTEITH LAKE OF
Place: Menteith

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