This is another place called 'Doirlinn', Gaelic for a tidal causeway or island. The one cottage was a ruin for years but is now being restored. In the 19th century it was an inn, and it has also been a shop, a school, a holiday centre for school children, and a private house. Presumably there was once a significant community here. By the shore, hidden in the bracken on the path up to the cottage, is the first of some remarkable cast-iron milestones indicating the distance to Drimnin, 6 3/4 miles along a Land Rover track. This track makes an attractive walk through deciduous woods along the shoreline to Loch Drumbuie (it was once one of the 'coffin roads' along which men carried coffins to their final resting place in a cemetery). After that the track goes up over the treeline and passes the remains of villages which were cleared in the mid 19th century — Sornagan, Portabhata, Auliston and Carraig.
