Garve, a loch on the mutual border of Contin and Fodderty parishes, Ross-shire, ¾ mile SE of Garve station on the Dingwall and Skye railway, this station being 11¾ miles W by N of Dingwall, and having a post and railway telegraph office. Here also there is a good inn. Lying 220 feet above sea-level, the loch has an utmost length and breadth of 1½ and ½ mile, has finely wooded shores, is traversed by the Blackwater, and contains abundance of trout, running 2 or 3 to the lb.—Ord. Sur., sh. 83, 1881.

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