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Culnakirk Burn

A stream near Drumnadrochit, Highland. No gauge of its own: what the river map and the banked data say about it.

Culnakirk Burn is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Drumnadrochit, Highland, with about 970 m of mapped channel. On the map it flows into the River Enrick, which flows on into the River Ness and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Ness-side on the River Ness, about 22 km along the river below where Culnakirk Burn ends on the map.

1.43 m Normal · rising slightly 32 min ago

No gauge measures Culnakirk Burn itself. A gauge downstream shows water that has already passed it, mixed with everything else that has joined on the way, so it says nothing exact about this stream.

Storm overflows on Culnakirk Burn

1 storm overflow is placed on this stream on the river map. Each status is the water company’s own monitor.

Glenurquhart Wwps CSO 2005 Nh504303 Monitor offline
Scottish Water · into Culnakirk Burn · 2025: no data

A status says whether an overflow is discharging now, never how much or why. A monitor that is offline or has not reported is not “not discharging”. Sewage in Britain’s rivers →

Live status: © Scottish Water, near-real-time Overflow Map data, open licence for reuse. EDM monitors indicate overflows; they do not confirm them, and this is not advice on water quality. Annual spill figures: Environment Agency Event Duration Monitoring return, © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right, Open Government Licence (OGL) v3.0.

Places along it

From its source towards its mouth, the settlements within a kilometre of it on the map: Easter Milton, Milton, Kilmichael, Drumnadrochit.

Place names: OS Open Names. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

On the map

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The blue line is Culnakirk Burn; grey lines are other mapped watercourses. Lines from OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-04).

The River Enrick, the river it joins →All rivers with gauges →

What this page can and cannot tell you

Its line, its name and where it flows come from Ordnance Survey’s river map (OS Open Rivers, edition 2026-04), which leaves out many small streams, ditches and culverts. “Flows into” is the map’s word: a channel that is not on the map is not shown here, which does not mean it is not there.
No gauge measures Culnakirk Burn itself, so its own level is not known here.
Storm overflows are listed only where the river map places them on this stream; an overflow it could not place is not counted.
No water-sampling point with a banked sample is placed on this stream. Only England’s samples are banked, and only where the map can place their sampling point.
Nothing on this page says whether any place floods. For an address, see its postcode page.