[1] However, as most toponyms in the area are derived from Scottish Gaelic, this is unlikely An alternative explanation links the loch's name to Loch Meig in Easter Ross, suggesting a corruption of the Old Gaelic root minc, meaning "pouring forth".

[2] The entry for the Parish of Urquhart in the Old Statistical Account, written in 1798, describes the loch as "a beautiful sheet of water", surrounded by "finely cultivated fields" and "neat gentlemens houses", forming "a very picturesque and romantic landscape".

[4] An Episcopalian chapel dedicated to St Ninian has sat on the loch's north shore since the 1850s.

The church was designed by Alexander Ross, and consecrated in 1853 by Bishop Robert Eden.

[5] In 1876, author William McKay claimed to have visited a crannog on the loch, accessible via a winding causeway.