It is situated in a low-lying area close to the B742 road next to Clocaird Farm in the Parish of Coylton, East Ayrshire, Scotland.

[1] The early OS maps show a sluice on the outflow, allowing the water level to be controlled.

The early OS maps show an arm of the loch running almost as far as the lane to old Glencaird (sic).

The name could appropriately refer to the bird, snipe, Lymnocryptes minimus, however in Scots the word can refer to a featureless place, lacking significant characteristics, something long and thin, or a boggy place.

[2] In Scots the snipe is variously known as a "bluiter wheep, earn-bleater, heather-bleat, mire-snipe, or moss-bleater."