[1] Roy's map of 1747 records the loch position, with a Bogbrae and Boghead on higher ground to the south.

In the 1920s the loch is shown as a marshy area with no open water, fed by a burn running down from near Ochiltree railway station.

[5] The 1950 aerial survey appears to show that the loch had been drained with only a small area of open water present.

[8] Early highways ran close to the loch, as indicated by names such as the nearby Glenconner Farm, 'conaire' being a Gaelic word for "path".

There is also a farm called Rottenrow near Glenconner, possibly derived from 'Route de Roi', or King's Highway.