For information on where best to fish and where to obtain permits (if required), You are best to contact the Glenelg and Arnisdale Fishing Club.
Permits can be obtained from the Glenelg Shop (in Glenelg village) and are valid for the Glenmore River and Loch a’ Mhuillinn.
Glenelg and Arnisdale make great bases for walkers with everything from beach strolls to Munro tops in the immediate area.
Some walking ideas can be found on walkhighlands.
Please check out the Scottish Outdoor Access Code:
Respect the interests of other people. Acting with courtesy, consideration and awareness is very important. If you are exercising access rights, make sure that you respect the privacy, safety and livelihoods of those living or working in the outdoors, and the needs of other people enjoying the outdoors.
Care for the environment. If you are exercising access rights, look after the places you visit and enjoy, and leave the land as you find it.
Take responsibility for your own actions. If you are exercising access rights, remember that the outdoors cannot be made risk-free and act with care at all times for your own safety and that of others.
In a stunning location overlooking the loch is the memorial to the fallen of Glenelg in the two great wars 1914-19 and 1939-45.
Glenelg war memorial
The memorial is the work of Louis Deuchars. The war memorial is composed of a stone pedestal surmounted by a bronze sculpture consisting of a winged female Victory, a kneeling female figure representing Humanity, and a kilted Highland soldier with head bowed representing Peace… (read more at the war memorials trust).
Full details at the Imperial War Museum’s registry of memorials.
After the Jacobite uprisings and the Battle of Glen Shiel in 1719, it was deemed prudent to build military roads for the rapid deployment of Hanovarian troops. These are generally attributed in this area to General Wade. The government troops were garrisoned at strategic locations, The Barracks at Bernera by Glenelg village being one of them.
Bernera barracks
A Broch is an Iron Age drystone hollow-walled structure of a type found only in Scotland. Brochs include some of the most sophisticated examples of drystone architecture ever created… (read more on Wikipedia)
The Glenelg Brochs are particularly well preserved. Both Dun Telve and Dun Troddan can be reached by car. They stand more than ten metres high and are easy to explore. Their exposed structural features are both fun and an aid to understanding how they were built and how they worked.
Dun Telve
“For centuries, the Glenelg brochs have been the subject of intense interest from antiquarians and travel writers, whose various interpretations of their origins include Pictish towers and Danish forts. In folklore, the brochs were the homes of Fingalian giants.”
Dun Troddan
According to some Brochs are the tallest prehistoric buildings in Britain.
