What is "lochinvar"

Lochinvar (or Lan Var) is a loch in the civil parish of Dalry in Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland. It is located in the Galloway Hills, around north-east of St. John's Town of Dalry. The loch formerly had an island on which stood Lochinvar Castle, seat of the Gordon family. In the 20th century the loch was dammed to form a reservoir, raising the water level and submerging the island with the ruins of the castle. The loch is used for trout fishing.

The name Lochinvar is from Scots Gaelic Loch a' bharra (older Gaelic Loch an bharra, the genitive of barr = summit) meaning "Loch on the hilltop". Consequently it is stressed on the last syllable (unlike Lochinver).

Lochinvar is a loch in southern Scotland

Lochinvar may also refer to the following:

• Lochinvar, New South Wales, a town in Australia
• Lochinvar (Pontotoc, Mississippi), a 19th-century plantation, listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi
• Lochinvar National Park, Zambia

• Lochinvar Corporation, a company producing water heaters
• HMS Lochinvar, the name of a ship and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy
• MV Lochinvar, a ferry operated by Caledonian MacBrayne
• Lochinvar, a character in Walter Scott's poem, Marmion, dramatised in the 1924 film Young Lochinvar
• Lord Lochinvar, a title in the peerage of Scotland

Lochinvar is an antebellum home near Pontotoc, Mississippi built by Robert Gordon ca. 1836.