The loch is situated in a granite basin and has several small islands and some beaches on its shore.

The sharp granite sand of these beaches was collected and sold for sharpening knives and scythes.

[2] The catchment area's vegetation is mainly Purple Moor Grass and Heather.

Tramps by Hill, Stream and Loch describes a trout that 'bore the unmistakable marks of a Loch Enoch trout, i.e. it was minus the lower half of its tail and part of its ventral fins'.

Since 1940 the loch became more acidic due to industrial emissions[3] and in the 1950s it completely lost its fish population.