Ordie, Loch, a lake in Dunkeld and Dowally parish, Perthshire, 6 miles N of Dunkeld. Lying 980 feet above sea-level, it has an utmost length and breadth of 5 and 31/3 furlongs, sends off Dowally Burn to the Tay, and contains abundance of fine large trout. On 12 Oct. 1865 the Queen, with the Princess Helena and the Duchess of Athole, ` took a short row on Loch Ordie, which looked extremely pretty, wooded to the water's edge and skirted by distant hills.'-Ord. Sur., sh. 56, l870.
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