What is Loch Dionard?
{{Infobox body of water|name=Loch Dionard|basin_countries=United Kingdom|caption_bathymetry=|location=[[Scotland]]|coords={{coord|58|23|57|N|4|48|52|W|type:waterbody_region:GB|display=inline,title}}|type=|inflow=Allt an Easain Ghill|outflow=Dionard River|catchment=|sections=|area=|depth=|volume=|residence_time=|shore=|elevation={{convert|108|m}}|frozen=|islands=|cities=None|pushpin_map=Scotland Sutherland|image=Loch Dionard - geograph.org.uk - 74516.jpg|caption=View of the north of Loch Dionard and the [[Dionard River]] in 1996}} '''Loch Dionard''' is a loch in [[Sutherland]] in the [[Highland (council area)|Highland Council Area]] in northern [[Scotland]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=#GetOutside: do more in the British Outdoors|url=https://getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/https://getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/|access-date=2022-09-04|website=OS GetOutside|language=en-gb}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Loch Dionard · Lairg, UK|url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Loch+Dionard/@58.3995292,-4.8225045,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x48902f6b0c064353:0xccebcd59d7d7f2f8!8m2!3d58.4004525!4d-4.8164583|access-date=2022-09-04|website=Loch Dionard · Lairg, UK|language=en}}</ref><ref>https://getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/local/loch-dionard-highland More direct link to Get Outside</ref> It is in the North-Western Highlands four miles south of Polla. == Etymology == The name may be from dyn-fjordr, 'noisy-firth.'<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/30069878 | Some Sutherland Names of Places. W. J. Watson, The Celtic Review, Vol. 2, No. 8 (Apr., 1906), pp. 360-368.</ref> == History == [[File:Towards the island in the north of Loch Dionard - geograph.org.uk - 752727.jpg|thumb|One of the oldest available photos of Loch Dionard, 8th April 1983]] The first mentions of Loch Dionard were in the late 16th or early 17th Century with the Loch being mapped and named as Dynard.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pont maps of Scotland, ca. 1583-1614 - Modern Placenames Search - National Library of Scotland|url=https://maps.nls.uk/pont/modern-places/g-m.html|acc