Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Etive

Etive, river, Argyllshire; issues from Loch Mathair Etive on Rannoch Moor, and flows SW. to head of Loch Etive; is 15 miles long, and is a good fishing stream; Loch Etive extends 10½ miles SW. and 8½ miles W. to Firth of Lorne at Dunstaffnage Castle.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Argyll County
Place: Etive

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