The island of Davaar is located in the loch, and can be reach by foot along a natural shingle causeway at low tide.

They burnt farms and houses including Saddell, a castle of James MacDonald of Dunyvaig and Glynnes (died 1565), and then marched south to burn Dunaverty and Machrimore.

[1] In 1877 Archibald MacEachern founded a shipyard at Trench Point, at the entrance to the Loch, on what had been 17th century earthworks.

[3] Campbeltown Shipyard Ltd, a subsidiary of Lithgows (1969) Ltd, opened on the same site in 1969[2] and built 101 fishing and other small boats until 1997.

In the song (see below) the writer Alan Cameron expresses his desire that the loch be full of whisky.