Loch Gelly

Loch Gelly
Loch Gheallaidh
Gelly Loch
Loch Gelly
Location	Fife, Scotland
Coordinates	56°7′3″N 3°17′12″W / 56.11750°N 3.28667°W / 56.11750; -3.28667
Type	freshwater loch
Primary inflows	Lochgelly burn
Primary outflows	Lochgelly burn
Basin countries	Scotland
Max. length	1.21 km (0.75 mi)[1]
Max. width	0.80 km (0.5 mi)[1]
Average depth	2.1 m (7 ft)[1]
Max. depth	2.7 m (9 ft)[1]
Water volume	910,000 m3 (32,000,000 cu ft)[1]
Surface elevation	107.0 m (351.2 ft)[1]

Loch Gelly (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Gheallaidh) is a small loch in Fife, Scotland lying approximately 1.5 km to the south east of the town of Lochgelly which itself is named after the loch. The Gaelic name of the loch, Loch Gheallaidh, can be loosely translated as Loch of Shining Waters or Loch of Brightness.^[2] It is a broad, shallow flat bottomed basin approximately 1.75 km in length from west to east and 0.75 km wide at its maximum breadth.

In May 1583, Sir John Wemyss built a fort on the south side of the loch and kept an armed boat to prevent the Boswells of Balmuto from fishing in the loch.^[3]

Land around the loch is owned by Wemyss 1952 Trustees.^[4]

The loch was surveyed^[1] on 11 May 1905 by Sir John Murray and later charted^[5] as part of The Bathymetrical Survey of Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland 1897-1909.^[6]