Micro-history Creoch Loch
creoch loch near mid lowes farm. the earl of dumfries proposed make cut river nith in new cumnock through loch o th lowes , creoch loch black loch in order provide supply of water power factory intended build on glaisnock water. have resulted in part of waters of river nith flowing onto clyde rather solway, development never carried fruition. fanciful imagination has pictured trout swimming river ayr, passing lugar water @ barskimming, entering black loch via glaisnock water , thence black loch. second outflow loch carry trout creoch loch, loch o th lowes, river nith , solway firth after journey of around seventy miles. the 1864 os map shows main line railway cutting between black loch , creoch loch, running east western lochshore of creoch loch.