Scottish anchorages

This is another place called 'Doirlinn', Gaelic for an isthmus. The cottage is I fear all but tumbledown now (apparently there was an inn here in the 19th century). Near the shore, hidden in the bracken on the path up to the cottage, is the first of some remarkable cast-iron milestones – indicating the miles to Drimmin, 6¾ - along a Land Rover track. Presumably there was once a significant community here. This track makes a nice walk through deciduous woods along the shore line, at least to Loch Drumbuie, after that it goes up over the tree line and passes the remains of villages which were cleared in the mid nineteenth century - Sornagan, Portabhata, Auliston and Carraig.