Ratagan on Loch Duich from Kintail on the 'Road to the Isles' near Kyle of Lochalsh Ross-shire Scotland SCO 2357
Loch Alsh, as it moves inland, divides into two arms; the more southerly is Loch Duich, at the head of which is Glen Shiel and the river Shiel. Duich is a strikingly beautiful loch and one that has much history associated with it. This is the territory of the Clan MacRae who for many years held the Loch Maree and the snow-capped Slioch (3,217 ft.) hereditary custodianship of these lands as faithful retainers to the Seaforths. A MacRae was always the Constable of the castle of Eilean Donan. Still sparsely inhabited, the shores of Loch Duich are covered with recently established plantations of coniferous trees, through which the road to the Kyle of Lochalsh rises and dips. Only small hamlets such as Dornie, Inverinate and Kintail show along the loch shores as centres of population and, at the narrow neck where Loch Long joins Loch Duich, the ferry which formerly carried the traffic has now been replaced by the Dornie Bridge. East of the head of the loch, the National Trust for Scotland has control of fifteen thousand acres of land which includes the Five Sisters of Kintail and Bein Fhada (3,383 feet). The area comprises some of the finest scenery in the Western Highlands. SCO 2357
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Location: Ratagan Loch Duich Wester Ross Highland Region Scotland
Photo credit: © David Gowans / Alamy / Afripics
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