A long Sutherland loch below the shattered quartzite peak of Quinag, with the ruin of Ardvreck Castle on a spit of its shore
Loch Assynt runs for several miles through the rough, rocky country of Assynt–Coigach in the far north-west Highlands, with the tiered peak of Quinag rising to the north. On a low promontory partway along stands Ardvreck Castle, a broken 15th-century tower once held by the Macleods of Assynt. It was here, after his defeat in 1650, that the royalist general the Marquis of Montrose was handed over to his enemies. The loch is known for its trout and salmon fishing, and the road along its northern shore is part of the drive through some of Scotland’s emptiest and oldest landscape.
