Gateside is a small village in North Ayrshire, Scotland about 1⁄2 mile (800 metres) east of Beith on the B777.

The loch, drained in 1780, is one of the main sources of the Powgree Burn and lay on the lands of Boghall and Hill o'Beith.

[4][5] The site is now represented by a low, marsh and reed covered area (less than 2 ha in extent) centred at NS 358 543 on the OS map.

This old habitation, marked as Boighall on a 1654 map,[8] was the home to the mother, Janet Pollock, of Robert Tannahill the 'Weaver Poet'.

Lime kilns to produce quicklime for improving the soil, were a common feature of the countryside before the process became fully industrialised.

The railway ran for several miles across what is now DM Beith land and ended up at first at an unloading point on a siding, where the limestone was emptied directly into standard gauge freight waggons.

The map marks a few wooden railway bridges over burns and given the gentle gradients, it may be that the line was at first worked by horses rather than steam locomotives.

The old Ordnance Survey maps show that a marble quarry was located nearby, being an especially hard form of limestone that could take a 'polish' and was used extensively for window and door surrounds.

[11] Gilbert and his wife Jane Speir were the parents of Mary Gunn who was the victim of an unsolved murder at Northbank Cottage near Portencross that took place in 1913.