Muckle or Meikle Loch, a lake in Slains parish, Aberdeenshire, 1 ¼ mile WNW of the coast near Slains Old Castle, and 4 ¼ miles E by N of Ellon. Lying 134 feet above sea-level, it has an utmost length and breadth of 4 and 2 ¹/3 furlongs; was formerly of much greater extent than now; is overhung, to the N, by Round Top (216 feet); has a mean depth of 20 feet, and a maximum depth of 52; and sends off a streamlet to the river Ythan.—Ord. Sur., sh. 87, 1876.

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